Graduated Stack of Twelve Natural Shaker Oval Boxes – SOLD
Various Communities | c. 1840-1900
Maple, pine, and copper
Old or original surfaces
32” h. x 13 ¼” w x 9 ½” d.
*Please note: the main photograph features eleven boxes but there are actually twelve in the stack — pictured below in situ at the ADA Historic Deerfield Antiques Show.
Oval pantry boxes exemplify Shaker craft. Although not made and used exclusively by the Shakers, pantry boxes, with their signature “finger” or “swallowtail” lap joinery, remain a symbol of Shaker quality and ingenuity. Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the Shakers of New Lebanon, New York, crafted the first oval boxes for community use and, later, they developed a line of oval boxes, available in a range of sizes, for sale to “the World.”
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