Paint-decorated Tinware Dome-top Trunk

Description:

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.
Estimate $400-600

Paint losses primarily on the front band of the lid and the two front corners.

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