Trunk
date: label: date made
content: ca 1815 - 1845
notes: label: Description
content: Black-japanned, flat-top box with scrolled hasp lock on front, rectangular wire handle on top, and two hinges at back. Semi-impasto painted decoration features four, ruffled-edge, red swags and teardrop-shaped tassels along the box front and two, different, right-facing, red flowers with yellow crosshatched centers perched on curved yellow stems on the box sides. Lid top has a rectangular outline of two undulating red lines with yellow leaflets and green swags, all bordered by a yellow ribbon; lid front and sides have a yellow rope border. Two-piece lid has an overhanging, clipped-corner, folded-edge top and wire-rolled rim. Five-piece box has a wire-rolled top edge with raised bead below and a flat bottom with projecting folded edge. Japanned interior. Lid interior inscribed in script "Hannah / Marston / of [Nor]th (illegible)"; very faint.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.27
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (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: 5 3/4 in x 9 5/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 14.605 cm x 24.4475 cm x 18.0975 cm