Record Details

Trinket Box with Eagle Decoration

Artist Artist unidentified

Date1820–1840

Place/RegionNew England

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

Description

From 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