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Spice box (Spice chest)
1720-1765
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania; Chester; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Walnut
- Tulip poplar
- Brass
Museum Object Number
1960.0737 A, B
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1960.0737 A, B
Object Name
Spice box (Spice chest)
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania; Chester; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1720-1765
Materials
- Walnut
- Tulip poplar
- Brass
Dimensions (inches)
26.5 (H) x 16.25 (W) x 11.5 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
67.31 (H) x 41.28 (W) x 29.21 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Comstock, Helen. 1962 American Furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century styles.
• Published: fig. 139.Book: Griffith, Lee Ellen. 1986 The Pennsylvania Spice Box.
• Related examplesArticle: Griffith, Lee Ellen. 1989 "The line-and-berry inlaid furniture of eighteenth-century Chester County, Pennsylvania". Antiques and Fine Art. (May)
Thesis: Griffith, Lee Ellen. 1988 Line-and-Berry Inlaid Furniture: A Regional Craft Tradition in Pennsylvania, 1682-1790. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Book: Cooper, Wendy A. & Minardi, Lisa. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850.
• Published: pp. 71-73, figs. 2.18 and 2.19.