A BLACK-PAINTED AND CARVED PINE BIBLE BOX

AMERICAN, 1700-1750

Details

A BLACK-PAINTED AND CARVED PINE BIBLE BOX
American, 1700-1750
The hinged and molded lid carved with a pinwheel and scroll design above a conforming case carved with pinwheel, crescent, triangle and interlacing circle decoration, on a molded rectangular base
5½in. high, 15in. wide, 11½in. deep

Lot Essay

Embellished with chip-carved pinwheels and petalled flowers within zig-zag borders, this box relates to a several attributed to New York State. Like these examples, this box is made of white pine as indicated by microanalysis (see Roderic H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776 (Albany, NY, 1988), figs. 174 and 247).