Chest ca. 1780 American Twentieth-century American collectors prized the distinctive eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century pottery, fraktur, and furniture made by immigrants of Switzerland, the Palatinate, and the Upper Rhine Valley of Germany, who had settled throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. A sampling of this Pennsylvania German "folk art" later appeared in the Index of American Design, a Federal Arts Project of the New Deal era, which helped to popularize aesthetics among modern collectors and artists. The unicorn and men-on-horseback design on this painted chest are motifs often dep
Chest ca. 1780 American Twentieth-century American collectors prized the distinctive eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century pottery, fraktur, and furniture made by immigrants of Switzerland, the Palatinate, and the Upper Rhine Valley of Germany, who had settled throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. A sampling of this Pennsylvania German "folk art" later appeared in the Index of American Design, a Federal Arts Project of the New Deal era, which helped to popularize aesthetics among modern collectors and artists. The unicorn and men-on-horseback design on this painted chest are motifs often depicted on marriage chests created in Berks Chest. American. ca. 1780. Yellow pine, tulip poplar. Made in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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