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Oval with flat bottom. Gallery-type straight sides with oval hand-hold at each end. Underside painted black. Top painted Chinese red with gilt and sepia painted border; floral scrolls, rectangular reserves, grapevines. Lyre at each end. Gallery border features stylized vine bordering oval medallion with festoons.
trays
enameling
gilding
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
festoon (motif)
vine scrolls
lyres
scrolls (motifs)
Tin
Enameled
Painted
Gilded
Scroll
Vine
Lyre
Medallion
Festoon
Tole
TRAY
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
25.625 x 19.5 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.607
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