Writing Box

Arts of the Americas

1825/60

Shaker Colony
American, 19th century
Watervliet, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Shaker (Craftsperson)
Title: Writing Box
Origin: Watervliet
Date: c. 1825–1860
Medium: Chestnut
Inscriptions: Inscribed in pencil on bottom: "Eliza"
Dimensions: 11.5 × 46.4 × 32.5 cm (4 1/2 × 18 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Juli and David Grainger Fund
Reference Number: 1988.210
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With Robert Skinner, Bolton, MA, sale March 30, 1984. With The Rathbun Gallery, Providence, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.

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