Record Details
Painted Box
Artist
Artist unidentified
Date1835
Place/RegionPennsylvania
MediumPaint on wood
Dimensions1 3/4 × 5 1/4 × 3 5/8"
Credit LineBequest of Samuel L. Meulendyke
Accession number1986.5.2
DescriptionThis miniature box was made in the shape of a book, a common form. Often, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century boxes in this form were made to hold prayer books. While a more elaborate and expensive box might be decorated with inlay or carving, this one has painted geometric decorations.
Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Painted Box," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 65
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