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Artificial Fruit

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8645

Description

Large wax pear. Colored pink with pink blush. Rolled paper stem.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fruit
artificial
molding (forming)
painting (coating)
wax
pear (wood)
Wax
Painted
Molded
Pear
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

1992.745.3

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