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Wooden, polychrome wall box with three-lobed lollipop top and sloped sides. Ragged/grained on yellow over red, painted with freehand symmetrical floral/leaf decoration and outlined with black paint. Black rays emanating from hanging holes at top.
boxes (containers)
graining
handmade
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Grained
Handmade
Box, Wall
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 3/4 x 12 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.647
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