A BLACK AND RED-PAINTED AND CARVED TABLE CANDLEBOX

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A BLACK AND RED-PAINTED AND CARVED TABLE CANDLEBOX
PROBABLY GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The posy-carved shaped lid sliding into a red-painted posy-carved black-painted box with molded base--9¼in. long, 5in. high, 7¼in. wide

Literature
Connecticut Furniture Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, CT, 1967), p. 5, fig. 6