Details
A SCRIMSHAWED OVAL LIDDED BOX
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
The oval hinged and bezelled lid opening to a conforming interior, the straight sides embellished with red and black scrimshawed decoration in the form of several individual pictorial reserves including a man and woman flanking a flower pot, a dining table and boudoir scene and a woman standing in a garden, all above a black and red repeating diamond embellished band, the sides joined at the back of the box by four small crocket-shaped and cross-hatched red and black fingers--1¾in. high, 4 1/8in. wide, 2¾in. deep
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
The oval hinged and bezelled lid opening to a conforming interior, the straight sides embellished with red and black scrimshawed decoration in the form of several individual pictorial reserves including a man and woman flanking a flower pot, a dining table and boudoir scene and a woman standing in a garden, all above a black and red repeating diamond embellished band, the sides joined at the back of the box by four small crocket-shaped and cross-hatched red and black fingers--1¾in. high, 4 1/8in. wide, 2¾in. deep
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 22 November 1980, lot 1063
Literature
E. Norman Flayderman, Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen (New Milford, 1972), p. 230