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Artificial fruit

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8652

Description

Pear painted in greens with red blush. Wooden stem.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fruit
artificial
molding (forming)
painting (coating)
plaster of Paris
wood (plant material)
pear (wood)
Molded
Painted
Wood
Plaster of Paris
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

1992.745.10

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