Box18153 1/4 × 10 × 7 1/2"Paint on tinplateGift of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration58.13.870unusual shape (slated sides with flat top and base)
Asphaltum ground with brush stroke design on top, front, and 2 ends. Fanciful thin white flower to right with sprays of 4-petaled flowers in vermilion. Groups of 3 vermilion flowers with cross-hatched centers to left , with " flat " vermilion buds. yellow-green wet-in wet leaves. White flowers and brush stroke groups around sides of lid . Red flowers and thin white sprays on lower sides154877421958.13.88Artist unidentifiedStevens TinshopContainersThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596Stevens Plains (now Westbrook)Stevens Plains (now Westbrook)United StatesMaineThree Dimensional WorksStevens Plains (now Westbrook)
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgfrom NYSHA object card: ESB (Esther Stevens Brazer) called this a "trinket box"maker listed as "Prob. A. Stevens" on NYSHA worksheethttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2459658.13.8818151815 58 13 87
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgfrom NYSHA object card: ESB (Esther Stevens Brazer) called this a "trinket box"maker listed as "Prob. A. Stevens" on NYSHA worksheet