Slightly domed rectangular, hinged lid on conforming box painted black and decorated by stenciled flowerhead border, corner fans and floral sprigs in red, white and yellow; the top is painted with the intitials 'EB' within a reserve of contiguous circles painted in yellow.
boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
stenciling
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Stenciled
BOX
The initials 'EB' are painted on the lid.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.25 x 19.375 x 10 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1531
Massachusetts (United States)
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