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Box
1640–1660
Object Place: New Haven, Connecticut
Medium/Technique
Maple, oak
Dimensions
Overall: 26 × 64.1 × 43.8 cm (10 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 17 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number2020.28
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
InscriptionsThere is a series of about 10 chalk hash marks of varying lenght on the underside of the lid, along with a column of numbers that might be an addition column. The numbers 13 and 9, and a plus (+) symbol, as well as some short rules and other numbers are present. The interior is lined with fragments of a New York newspaper dated November 19-23, 1852.
ProvenanceBy 1928, Frederick W. Fuessenich (b. 1886 - d.1973), Torrington and Litchfield, CT; date unknown, Cecile (Seligman) Lehman Mayer (b. 1893 - d. 1962), Manhattan and Tarrytown, NY; by descent to her daughter, Elizabeth (Betty) Lehman Asiel (b. 1918 - d. 1999), White Plains, NY; September 22, 2014, American Furniture, Outsider and Folk Art sale, Christie's, New York, lot 1 [see note] to Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III of Milwaukee, WI; 2020, gift of the Vogels to the MFA. (Accession date: February 26, 2020).
NOTE: Listed as from the collection of Cecile (Seligman) Lehman Mayer.
NOTE: Listed as from the collection of Cecile (Seligman) Lehman Mayer.