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Storage basket with lid

1830–1900
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueProbably ash, laundry bluing, and Mohegan pink
Dimensions33.02 cm (13 in.)
Credit LineHarriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession number1989.80a-b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBasketry
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have been collected in northern New York state [see note]. Sold by a private collection, New York, to Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA; 1989, sold by Hurst Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 22, 1989)

NOTE: The name "Smith" is inscribed on the lid of the basket, in what is probably a nineteenth-century hand.
Sarah Maria Arnold Cisco
1845
Lidded storage basket
late 18th century
about 1780–1800 with later writing-arm
Restricted: For reference only
JoAnne Russo
1999
JoAnne Russo
2007
1940–1950
1930–1940
Madeline Shay
1920–1940