Wooden box and lid
Date1902
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
MediumPine box with burned-in decoration on lid
Dimensions2 1/8 × 5 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (5.4 × 14 × 7.3 cm)
Credit LineEstate of Beatrix Rumford of Virginia, 2023
Object number2023-79
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Label TextPyrography is the decoration of wood by burning with a hot instrument, like a poker. Pyle experimented with the media around 1900, creating objects like this small box which he gave to friends and family.
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875)
c. 1865
