About This Artwork

Artist unknown
Eastern Massachusetts

Box, 1650/1700

Red oak with white pine
24.8 x 63.5 x 45.7 cm (9 3/4 x 25 x 18 in.)
Initials "MP" carved in center front
Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1946.564

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 3.