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Towel Rack

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1820-1899

GUSN

GUSN-2983

Description

Wooden towel rack with shaped trestle feet and two horizontal bars, painted allover with dark green paint.

Details

Descriptive Terms

racks (supporting devices)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Mortise & Tenon
Painted
Wood
Rack, Towel

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

32 x 32 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1463

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