Boxes are a special folk art category, combining utility with great imagination, color and detail: tiny drawers, cutouts, lap joints and decorative painting.


Detail of Bride's Boxes by Jacquelyn Trone


styles :   bandboxes, salt and hat boxes, Bible, bride's , candle and trinket boxes, pipe or letter boxes, carved tramp art boxes, lidded and dome top, sewing, and jewelry boxes.

& materials :   wood, tin, leather, cardboard, baleen and ivory. with grain painting, decorative painting and wallpaper coverings.

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Original Art Work by Jacquelyn Trone