Lot Essay
A related sewing box is illustrated in Jean Lipman, Elizabeth V. Warren and Robert Bishop, Young America: A Folk Art History (New York, 1986), p. 172, fig. 103.
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A PAINTED AND GILT-STENCILLED SEWING BOX AND A CHIP-CARVED PINE DOME-TOP BOX
THE SEWING BOX, CIRCA 1820; THE DOME-TOP BOX, 19TH CENTURY
The sewing box lid depicting a mourning scene with a contemplative woman clasping a letter resting upon a balustrade in front of an urn with a verdant landscape in the background opening to a black-painted edge with gilt-stencilled reserves; the chip-carved box with domed top and rectangular base with geometric and rosette-carved decoration--the sewing box 4 1/8in. high, 12 1/4in. wide, 9in. deep; the chip-carved box 5in. high, 8 5/8in. wide, 5 3/4in. deep
THE SEWING BOX, CIRCA 1820; THE DOME-TOP BOX, 19TH CENTURY
The sewing box lid depicting a mourning scene with a contemplative woman clasping a letter resting upon a balustrade in front of an urn with a verdant landscape in the background opening to a black-painted edge with gilt-stencilled reserves; the chip-carved box with domed top and rectangular base with geometric and rosette-carved decoration--the sewing box 4 1/8in. high, 12 1/4in. wide, 9in. deep; the chip-carved box 5in. high, 8 5/8in. wide, 5 3/4in. deep