Oval Box

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

c. 1850

Woodworker unknown (American, 19th century)
Canterbury, New Hampshire

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Shaker
Title: Oval Box
Place: Canterbury (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1850
Medium: Pine, maple, and copper
Dimensions: 7.9 × 21.3 × 14 cm (3 1/8 × 8 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Delphine G. Schoen Trust, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Puth, and Stanley and Polly Stone endowment funds; Woman’s Board American Art and Mrs. Richard Bennett funds
Reference Number: 2008.492
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Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2008–09), p.16.
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. 38.

With Peter Sawyer Antiques, Exeter, New Hampshire by 2008; sold to the Art Institute, 2008.

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