Folding sewing basket/box

Object/Artifact

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Folding sewing basket/box

Entry/Object ID

2023.7.210

Description

Paste board sewing box in shape of handled basket. Two compartments with handle in center, folds up into a semi circle box. Compartment lids decorated with pastoral Regency woman and cherub scenes. Green exterior with faux wood interior.

Collection

Linda Ford-Wallace Collection

Category

Tools

Acquisition

Accession

2023.7

Source or Donor

Linda Ford-Wallace Estate

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

sewing boxes

Accessories

Accessory

Ephemera

Notes

Note tucked inside reads: "Regarding your box. I may have said a 'Jane Austen' style box, meaning the type she would have used during the 1830's 40's. As you know she was the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 'Emma' 'Sense and Sensibility' amongst many great classics and portrayals of her work you will see that style of box. It appears in regency paintings. If you look in books of furnished period rooms you will often see one on a side table. In any antiques books relating to the late Regency period you should fins illustrations of boxes similar to yours ? I can even think of some American Shaker boxes in the same way. All my books are packed away at the moment as I have just moved house so I can't quote you a page."

Material

Paper

Color

Green, Brown, Red, Off White