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"Spider" Frying Pan

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1790-1825

GUSN

GUSN-8612

Description

Large, deep spider with three 7" legs and long handle ending in downward curve.

Details

Descriptive Terms

frying pans (cookware)
cookware
casting (process)
iron (metal)
Iron
Slip Cast
PAN, FRYING

Inscription

Incised: ""VI"".

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

12 (H), 12 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.704

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