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Lot 1233

Sale 5808 - Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 19, 2006 7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$18,000 - 22,000

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Painted and decorated trinket box attributed to john or johann drissell bucks county pa dated 1821

The rectangular box with sliding lid painted yellow and decorated with red, green and black; the sides with profile tulips within a sawtooth border , the top inscribed "Eliza Hoch Anno 1821" and leaves and pinwheel-flower within a sawtooth border. Note: This box shows many similarities to a box made by Drissell for "W. Funct" in 1795 in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated in Pennsylvania German Arts (2001) Irwan Richman, p.55.

H: 4, W: 7 1/4, D: 5 in.

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