Chest
Unknown
ca. 1780 · Yellow pine, tulip poplar · The American Wing
Twentieth-century American collectors prized the distinctive eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century pottery, fraktur, and furniture made by immigrants of Switzerland, the Palatinate, and the Upper Rhine Valley of Germany, who had settled throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. A sampling of this Pennsylvania German "folk art" later appeared in the Index of American Design, a Federal Arts Project of the New Deal era, which helped to popularize aesthetics among modern collectors and artists. The unicorn and men-on-horseback design on this painted chest are motifs often depicted on marriage chests created in Berks County.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Medium
- Yellow pine, tulip poplar
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1923
