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Slightly domed rectangular hinged lid on conforming box. Painted ochre and freehand painted en grisaille with birds, sprigs and flourishes on all sides. Lined with an 1806 Massachusetts newspaper. Nail construction.
boxes (containers)
grisaille
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Box
Box
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 5/8 x 11 7/8 x 7 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.643
Massachusetts (United States)
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