Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Box
	Object number RIF3531
	Maker Maker, attributed to George Robert Lawton, 1813?1885 Maker, formerly attributed to John Colvin, 1794?1869
	Dimensions 10 1/2 � 17 1/2 � 12 3/4 in. (26.67 � 44.45 � 32.385 cm)
	Date 1842
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Scituate, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Pine
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Vernacular
	Provenance Rachel Young (1917–1982), North Scituate and West Warwick, Rhode Island; sold to Robert Grabosky, Strasburg, Pennsylvania; Skinner, Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton, Massachusetts), January 6–7, 1983, lot 99D. Ralph O. Esmerian, New York
	Associated names Rachel Young Robert F. Grabosky Skinner, Inc. Ralph O. Esmerian
	Notes The box is painted black, ivory, gray, and salmon.
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Mass., An Auction of Americana, sale cat. (January 6– 7, 1983), 184, lot 99D, ill. Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, exh. cat. (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 424–425, no. 77. Jane Katcher and Alan Andersen, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, eds. David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe, 2 (Seattle: Marquand Books, 2011).

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