Paint-decorated Tinware Dome-top Box

Description:

Paint-decorated Tinware Dome-top Box, America, late 18th/early 19th century, rectangular form with hinged lid, the front panel painted with a white bird flanked by red, white, and black flowers on a green background, the top and sides ornamented with similarly colored flowers, ht. 6, wd. 8, dp. 5 in.

Provenance: Illustrated in Early American Ironware Cast and Wrought, by Henry J. Kauffman, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Vermont, 1966, p. 132, the box was in the author's collection.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

The cover is lacking the wire handle, scattered paint loss, and paint darkened with age, there are two small holes on base edge of l.r. box's side.

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