Wooden towel rack, with dome trestle feet and 3 horizontal bars of mortise and tenon construction; unfinished (pine?); somewhat heavy.
racks (supporting devices)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
nailing
pine (wood)
Pine
Nailed
Mortise & Tenon
Rack, Towel
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
35 1/2 x 27 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1462
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