Gilt red and black jar with a basket weave, fish and flower motif, with a matching lid.
jars
gilding
incising
japanning
wood (plant material)
Vessel
Jar
Jar
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.2805
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