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Painting Case with eighteen palettes
Made for: Edward Greene Malbone (American, 1777–1807)
about 1800
Object Place: United States
Medium/Technique
Ivory, pigments
Dimensions
13.97 x 30.48 x 22.86 cm (5 1/2 x 12 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.117
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsTools and equipment – Painting
Catalogue Raisonné
Eighteenth-Century American Arts No. 220
InscriptionsEngraved "EGM" in sprigged script on lid of cylindrical case.
ProvenanceOwned originally by the artist Edward Green Malbone (1777-1807); nineteenth-century history unknown; owned by the dealer Alvin C. Detweiler of Washington D.C., in May 1937; acquired from Detweiler by the Karoliks before January 1939.