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

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Not on view

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Americas

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)