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Artificial Fruit/Vegetable

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8279

Description

Twenty-four various fruit and vegetable shapes molded in plaster and painted. Small plantain (banana): molded stem showing wire. Blacks, pinks and yellows. Showing interior.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fruit
artificial
clay
painting (coating)
wax
fruit
Clay
Wax
Painted
Plantain
Fruit, Artificial

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.646.7

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