Box

Object/Artifact

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Swedish American Museum

2010.17.1_front

2010.17.1_front

Name/Title

Box

Entry/Object ID

2010.17.1

Description

Pine green Swedish tin box with a painted folk motif. The artwork in the motif includes five larger red flowers, three of which are heart-shaped and two of which are leaf-shaped, four medium-sized red flowers, the latter of which are surrounded by green dots. All five of the larger flowers are attached to green leaves, most of which are large and winding while about half of the large and winding leaves are connected with yellow or green musical bass clefs, half of which are mirror image and about half of the large and winding leaves are immediately adjacent to rows of yellow dots. All of the medium-sized red flowers are connected with three green leaves and two yellow musical bass clefs, half of which are mirror image while each of the three red heart-shaped flowers has a yellow top, two of which are leaf-shaped and one of which is tulip-shaped.

Acquisition

Accession

2010.17

Source or Donor

Kristensson, Per-Hugo

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Per-Hugo Kristensson

Made/Created

Place

Country

Sweden

Region

Northern Europe

Continent

Europe

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Art, Boxes

Search Terms

Kurbits, Rosemaling, Folk art

Dimensions

Height

4-3/8 in

Width

7-1/4 in

Depth

5-3/8 in

Material

Tin, Oil Paint