Tramp Art sewing box, with a rare a triple-tier design (usually double tier), with notched and layered pyramids and raised star design to the high points, with a pin cushion top in the original celadon blue fabric (worn) with five tiny applied convex brass stars, on stacked square feet; key present and lock functioning, American, ca. 1900.
For similar examples and techniques, see:
Clifford A. Wallach, A LEGACY IN TRAMP ART. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 191. Laura M. Addison, NO IDLE HANDS: THE MYTHS AND MEANINGS OF TRAMP ART.
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press in Association with the Museum of International Folk Art, 2017, plate 49.
Tramp Art sewing box, with a rare a triple-tier design (usually double tier), with notched and layered pyramids and raised star design to the high points, with a pin cushion top in the original celadon blue fabric (worn) with five tiny applied convex brass stars, on stacked square feet; key present and lock functioning, American, ca. 1900.
For similar examples and techniques, see:
Clifford A. Wallach, A LEGACY IN TRAMP ART. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 191. Laura M. Addison, NO IDLE HANDS: THE MYTHS AND MEANINGS OF TRAMP ART.
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press in Association with the Museum of International Folk Art, 2017, plate 49.
