Burl maple bowl, large and round, carved from single piece of burl with overhanging rim above 3 incised bands; wide body resting on a shallow foot of golden brown patina; highly figured.
bowls (vessels)
cookware
burl veneer
turning (shaping process)
Maple
Turned
BOWL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7.25 (H), 18.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1471
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