Sold for:
$593
$593
Paint-decorated Tinware Dome-top Trunk, Berlin, Connecticut, area, early 19th century, decorated with swags and blossoms in red and yellow on an asphaltum ground, with brass swing handle, (paint losses), ht. 6 1/4, wd. 9, dp. 4 1/2 in. Literature: A similarly decorated trunk is in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is illustrated in American Painted Tinware: A Guide To Its Identification, Vol. I, by Gina Martin and Lois Tucker, The Historical Society of Early American Decoration, p. 33. Paint losses primarily on the front band of the lid and the two front corners.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-04