Paint-decorated Tinware Dome-top Box

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. 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.