A Nest of Four Graduated Hatboxes

c. 1950

A NEST OF FOUR GRADUATED CARDBOARD HATBOXES (American, c. 1950) by Ethel Atkins. Each circular box is decorated with a printed paper scene of an eighteenth-century French fête champêtre. The largest of the four boxes bears a blue lid, while the three others have green lids that are printed at center "Hats by/Ethel Atkins/16 Arlington Street/Boston." All four boxes are strung with pink rope handles.

American

cardboard; ink; paper

.1 = 5 1/8" x 9" x 9"

.2 = 6 1/2" x 9" x 9"

.3 = 6 7/8" x 11 1/8" x 11 1/8"

.4 = 6 1/2" x 12" x 12"

Gift of Mrs. Ann Marvell Kirwin, 2010.

PSNC.12102.1ab-.4ab