item name: Grain Painted Bench With Box Seat

item description: Painted Bench with Box Seat, Pennsylvania, ca 1840. Original grain painted details over mustard yellow, traces of red, on pine construction. 41” x 70” by 20” deep. Crested back rail over gallery with alternating diamond and baluster splats. The seat lifts to reveal a divided box. Retains original iron lock and escutcheon. From a German community in Pennsylvania.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
41" H X 70" W X 20" D
104cm H X 178cm W X 50.8cm D

item name: Polynesian Tapa Cloth Folding Screen

item description:

Polynesian barkcloth or Tapa, hand made circa 1945 in the traditional technique with natural dyes and the inner bark of the paper-mulberry tree. Recently divided into four panels and mounted as a folding screen, the back finished with Curwen printed laid paper, stretched on lap-jointed poplar frame.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
64" H X 52" W
163cm H X 132cm W

Each Panel:
64" H X 12.5" W
163cm H X 31.8cm W

item name: Turned Wood Candlestick

item description: Unusual "machine age" candlestick made from hand-turned wood pieces with the original red painted surface. From a Rhode Island estate.