Busk
c. 1840
19th Century
11 1/2 in. x 1 1/2 in. x 1/8 in.
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
baleen
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Miss Mabel Harris
Accession Number:
1957.84
A baleen busk with a carved motif including an interlocking heart, a basket of flowers, a tree in a square, a tree in a geometric pile, a two-spired domed church, and a diagonally divided rectangle.
Harris, a seaman, died at sea in the South Pacific in 1850.