Plaster Fruit

Item Information

Title:
Plaster Fruit
Description:
Each fruit is made from plaster, formed and colored to look real. These include: a lemon, an orange, a lemon with a wood stem, and a small yellow apple. The orange is lighter than the rest, with a ground in yellow and orange with a wax finish.
Date:
1850–1900
Genre:
painting (coating)
plaster (composite coating)
wax
fruit
artificial
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Plaster
Wax
Painted
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/3256
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.1039.1-5
Identifier:
3256