Rare Stirewalt Miniature Paint Decorated Blanket Chest, Wheatcroft, Walters Benisek, McGehee Lipman

Description

made by Jacob Stirewalt, New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, circa 1850, painted pine and poplar, original leather hinges, 6 x 8-3/4 x 4-3/4 in.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, The Howard and Jean Lipman Sale, November 14, 1981, lot 202; Sotheby's New York, The Don and Faye Walters Sale, October 25, 1986, lot 73; Milly McGehee; Walters-Benisek; Jeremy Banta Collection; David Wheatcroft, Westborough, Massachusetts, June 2007; From the Collection of Elbert H. Parsons, Jr., Huntsville, Alabama

Literature: Published in Sandra Brant and Elissa Cullman, Small Folk, 1980, p. 165, fig. 298.

Exhibited: New York Historical Society, "Small Folk", Winter, 1980

Condition

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