A SALMON-PAINTED AND DECORATED BLANKET CHEST

PAINT DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO MOSES EATON, JR. (1796-1886), HANCOCK AND DUBLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details

A SALMON-PAINTED AND DECORATED BLANKET CHEST
Paint decoration attributed to Moses Eaton, Jr. (1796-1886), Hancock and Dublin, New Hampshire, second quarter 19th century
The rectangular salmon-painted top with green and red stencilled leaf, star and line decoration and molded edge lifting to a conforming interior fitted with a till above a conforming salmon-painted case decorated with green and red-painted urns, swags and pinwheels over a similarly decorated skirt, on bracket feet, till missing lid
20in. high, 37in. wide, 18in. deep

Literature

Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, New Jersey, 1975).

Exhibited

Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth County Historical Society, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art" 29 September - 29 November 1975.

Lot Essay

Several interiors decorated by Moses Eaton and using motifs similar to the stencil-decoration on this chest are illustrated and discussed in Lipman and Winchester, The Flowering of American Folk Art: 1776-1876 (New York, 1974), pp. 206-207, figs. 277 and 279.