Bucket or Firkin

Item Information

Title:
Bucket or Firkin
Description:
Tapering cylindrical wooden storage bucket with pine staves and oak bands; pointed overlapping joints secured with iron brads; one band at base and one below top edge where oak handle attaches to sides with wooden dowels with knob ends; wood unfinished and unpainted.
Date:
1850–1870
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
iron (metal)
oak (wood)
pine (wood)
buckets (vessels)
cookware
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
pine (wood)
Pine
Iron
Oak
Places:
Maine > York (county) > York Harbor
Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.)
Extent:
12.75 in. (H) Diameter: 14.25 in.
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/4557
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
Accession #:
1977.764
Identifier:
4557