A PAIR OF FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES
A PAIR OF FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES

PROBABLY AMERICAN, 1790-1810

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A PAIR OF FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES
Probably American, 1790-1810
Each with slant lid with outset serpentine banded edge opening to an interior fitted with a silverware rack, the underside of the lid with inlaid star, all above a conforming case centered by a string and band-inlaid rectangular reserve with silvered copper escutcheon, on a conforming string-inlaid base
14in. high, 9in. wide, 11in. deep (2)
来源
Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764-1839)
Stephen Van Rensselaer IV (1789-1868), son
Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend (1828-1912), daughter
Harriet Bayard Townsend Barber (1864-1942), daughter
Thomas Hunt Barber (b.1889), son
Thence by descent to John F. Barber