Bird organ (serinette)
France, 19th century
Ash
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection 17.1943

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MFA Online Collections Database

 

Frederick Lane, American, 1791-1865
Bass drum and mallet
United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), about 1813-19
Ash
60 x 62 cm (23 5/8 x 24 7/16 in.)
A12
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Gift of the Family of Charles E. Black and Gale L. Perron, including Karen A. Black, Diane L. (Black) Conners, Emmie Perron Black and Katrina Perron-Black 1986.937a-b

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Ash (wood)

Image credit: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/eab/img
/images/ashdecline1.jpg
(Accessed September 16, 2003)
Note: Web address has been wrapped

 

Ash

Photomacrograph showing the grain of a tangential cross-section of Ash. Sample provided by the MFA Furniture and Frame Conservation Lab.
Photo credit: Keith Lawrence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Figured Hungarian ash
(Fraxinus excelsior)

Photomacrograph of figured Hungarian ash from a set of veneer samples produced by the United States Plywood Corporation. Sample provided by the MFA Scientific Research Lab.
Photo credit: Keith Lawrence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston