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Mortar and pestle

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1700-1800

GUSN

GUSN-8346

Description

Green-painted, turned and chip-carved maple mortar with turned pine pestle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pestles
cookware
chip carving
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
Maple
Turned
Painted
Carved
MORTAR & PESTLE

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.543A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

6.125 (H), 5.75 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.543AB

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