Maxfield Parrish Crane's Chocolate Garden Box Arts and Crafts

An eBay seller is offering Crane Chocolate gesso'ed candy box with art by Maxfield Parrish titled "The Garden of Allah."

According to the listing, the box is marked CA Crane Co., Cleveland, in the lower right hand corner of the print. Strong colors on this fine old box and the case is really handsome a very rare surviving artifact.

"This is the original 1918 very rare surviving document...in the period of 1915 to 1918, Parrish created three very beautiful and imaginative works for Crane Chocolate boxes, the images were left to the artist's interpretation," says the seller. "They were Rubaiyat (1916), Cleopatra (1917) and Garden of Allah (1918). Due to royalty disagreements between Crane and Parrish, these boxes were not made after 1918. They are rare and very hard to find.

The seller adds, "I will be listing rare surviving examples all three of these Maxfield Parrish designs and original Crane's Chocolate boxes this week on our eBay auction site. If desired in time to ship out to you as high bidder before Christmas day. I do not end auctions early and do not use reserve bidding this will sell to the high bidder and the winning bidder can use overnight delivery or two-day express saver at their expense if desired for a delivery before December 25th."

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