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Each fruit is made from plaster, formed and colored to look real. These include: a lemon, an orange, a lemon with a wood stem, and a small yellow apple. The orange is lighter than the rest, with a ground in yellow and orange with a wax finish.
fruit
artificial
painting (coating)
plaster
wax
Plaster
Wax
Painted
Fruit, Artificial
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1039
Unknown
Europe
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1039.1-5
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