Gorgeous Mid 19th Century New England Lathe Turned Round Dough/Bread Board with Marble-like Surface shape and think it would be

and think it would be great filled with wildflowers

1840--a New York entity founded in 1828 to "encourage and promote domestic industry in Agriculture

(And the three carved bands on the spines of both of those make them especially nice together

which has been painted with black and white enamel

are cedar root

Gorgeous Mid 19th Century New England Lathe Turned Round Dough/Bread Board with Marble-like Surface shape and think it would beWhen I spotted this one at an antiques show in MA last week, at first I thought it was made of marble (and a friend seeing it a few minutes later thought the same) always hard to feel things from photos, but the color on the wood is rather otherworldly, and the surface, though showing cut marks all over, is worn marble smooth. And the two sets of rings perfectly imperfect in their not exactly centered placement on the not quite a perfect circle board