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Towel Rack

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1780-1899

GUSN

GUSN-2982

Description

Wooden towel rack, with dome trestle feet and 3 horizontal bars of mortise and tenon construction; unfinished (pine?); somewhat heavy.

Details

Descriptive Terms

racks (supporting devices)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
nailing
pine (wood)
Pine
Nailed
Mortise & Tenon
Rack, Towel

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

35 1/2 x 27 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1462

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