Record Details
Trinket Box with Eagle Decoration
Artist
Artist unidentified
Date1820–1840
Place/RegionUnited States
MediumPaint on wood
Dimensions6 3/8 × 14 7/8 × 8 1/8"
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Eva and Morris Feld Folk Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number1981.12.21
DescriptionFrom the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, Americans kept their belongings in many different types of boxes. This "trinket" box contains nine small compartments for storage. The interior has been sponge-decorated yellow and brown.
Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Trinket Box with Eagle Decoration," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 64
