Lot Essay
As noted in George Scott's ledger,"this chest was bought along road from Reamstown to Kramer's Mill.
This chest relates to a small group of known chests attributed to Jacob Weber. There are five others recored in The Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection. Included in this group are two chest made for sisters Cathernine and Hannah Landes, each dated 1849. On the bottom of Hannah Landes' box is the inscription "..daughter of----Landes," supporting the tradition that these chests were given as gifts and each were decorated diffently, pherhaps portraying individual homes.
This chest is recorded in The Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, accession number 78.1494. Another related example is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania German Collection and is illustrated in Garvan, p.16, number 24. his chest is in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Decorative Arts Photographic Collection accession number 78.1494.
This chest relates to a small group of known chests attributed to Jacob Weber. There are five others recored in The Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection. Included in this group are two chest made for sisters Cathernine and Hannah Landes, each dated 1849. On the bottom of Hannah Landes' box is the inscription "..daughter of----Landes," supporting the tradition that these chests were given as gifts and each were decorated diffently, pherhaps portraying individual homes.
This chest is recorded in The Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, accession number 78.1494. Another related example is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania German Collection and is illustrated in Garvan, p.16, number 24. his chest is in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Decorative Arts Photographic Collection accession number 78.1494.