A PAINTED AND DECORATED TRINKET TRUNK

LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1800-1840

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A PAINTED AND DECORATED TRINKET TRUNK
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1840
The rectangular blue-painted box with domed lid and punched-tin hasp decorated with white and red compass drawn and freehand floral and foliate decoration
5in. high, 7in. wide, 4.5/8in. deep

來源

Sold in these Rooms, Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, June 3, 1995, lot 317

拍品專文

With its compass drawn flowers and free-hand decoration, this trinket trunk is part of a known group of boxes from Lancaster County. A few examples are lined with Lancaster County newspapers dating from 1812 to 1826. A slide lid box in the collection of Winterthur Museum is inscribed with pencil, "February 12, 1814, Lancaster Jonas H..." (Barons, et. al., The Folk Tradition of Early Arts and Crafts of Susquehanna Valley, (New York, 1981), p.151).