Box or Trunk
date: label: date made
content: ca 1790-1841
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, dome-top trunk or lidded box with scrolled hasp lock on front, circular wire ring handle on top, and two hinges at back. Box front is painted along top with two, staggered, swag-and-tassel bands in red, yellow, and green, the top one overpainted on a white band, and along base with a yellow ribbon, thin red line, and green dots. Yellow dot-and-drops brushwork runs diagonally across the box sides and straight across the lid sides. Yellow brushwork forms a diamond shape around the handle; yellow bands border the lid top and box sides. Three-piece lid has a wire-rolled rim. Two-piece box has a top edge folded with wire bead below and a flat bottom. Tinned interior. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to the North Shop of Fly Creek, NY, circa 1790-1841.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Fly Creek
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Minnie J. Elliott
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.247993
label: catalog number
content: 247993
label: accession number
content: 47773
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims; handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 16.1925 cm x 7.9375 cm