Box or Trunk
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1840
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned, dome-top trunk or lidded box with a scrolled hasp lock on front, a circular wire ring handle on top, and two hinges at back. Box front is painted with pairs of right-facing, alternating, red and yellow leaflets, and on the sides with two, yellow-bordered, red swags with yellow brushwork at center. Lid has yellow X-shape brushwork around handle and sprays in top corners; yellow penciling on lid top and all sides except back. Three-piece lid has a wire-rolled front rim and three folded edges. Three-piece box has a flat bottom and a top edge folded with wire bead below. Tinned interior. No marks.
label: Description
content: The painted decoration on this box combines a lid design seen on trunks attributed to the Upson Tinshop of Marion (Southington), CT, circa 1773-1837, with a brushwork band used on the front of a trunk attributed to the Connecticut Filley Tinshop of Bloomfield, CT, circa 1800-1837.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.245425.0085
label: catalog number
content: 245425.0085
label: accession number
content: 245425
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: 3 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 3 in; 8.255 cm x 16.51 cm x 7.62 cm