Description:
small red chest with gilt decoration of medallions enclosing floral and bird designs, with black birds and animals around floral borders. Drop door on front with gilt iron locks and hinges. Lower part cut in arches to form four feet. Inside of door is white with bird and floral decorations in red, gray, yellow, and green. Interior has one long center drawer with two smaller drawers above and below it, front of each covered with a painted design of flowers and birds, each with silk pull.
Label Text:
This eighteenth-century lacquered desk comes from the collection of Dwight D. Morrow—Amherst College Class of 1895 and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1927 to 1930—and his wife Elizabeth. Through their writings and their support of traveling exhibitions, the Morrows helped to popularize Mexican folk art in the United States. Their children donated the Morrows’ own important collection of more than 250 works of Mexican popular art to the College in 1955.
EEB, 2008: 1821 Society brochure
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