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Towel Rack

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1750-1800

GUSN

GUSN-3260

Description

Four squared dowels tendoned through two plain rectrangular up rights on trestle feet; unpainted.

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

56 3/4 x 29 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1044

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