Bread tray. Painted tin with fruit and foliate on gold background and and orange-red trim. Painted by Laura Godfrey Loud Orcutt (1910-1997); received award from the Historical Society of Early American Decoration, Inc. Exhibition label attached to bottom.
bread trays
tin (metal)
paint (coating)
Tray, Serving
Tray, Bread
Tray, Bread
"Laura Loud Orcutt/Sheepscott, Maine/1978" (In gold ink.)
1039.3
Orcutt, Laura Loud, 1910-1997 (Artist)
United States
3 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Dr. Candace Orcutt
2014.146.3
1978 (Date of decoration)
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