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Storage basket with lid
Storage basket with lid

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.