$7,050
Small Paint Decorated Dome-top Trinket Box, attributed to the "compass decorator" of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1800-40, the rectangular dovetail-constructed pine and poplar box with sheet iron and wire hinges and punch-decorated lock hasp with vestiges of tin remaining, ornamented with compass-incised, red and white hand-painted floral decoration on the top and sides against a blue ground, ht. 3 3/4, wd. 3 7/8, dp. 2 7/8 in. Note: Similar examples of this maker's work can be found in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. One is illustrated in The Pennsylvania German Collection, by Beatrice B. Garvan, Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. 15,
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-04
