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Storage basket

Storage basket

1830s
Object PlaceMassachusetts (Central western), United States
Medium/TechniqueAsh, laundry bluing, Mohegan pink (red and white lead)
Dimensions31.11 x 53.34 x 43.18 cm (12 1/4 x 21 x 17 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. William White Howells
Accession number1994.187
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBasketry
Collections
InscriptionsThe interior of this basket retains numerous small fragments of what appears to be nineteenth-century newspaper. While legible, none of the fragments in a fairly thorough examination seemed to contain any date or place name. GWRW 6/5/09
Provenance1993, said to have been found in Maine and taken to Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA; 1994, sold by Hurst Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 1994)