Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor and carved from one piece

and carved from one piece of wood

Really just perfect

Dows' biography is fascinating

plus an extra cup (without handle) and plate--perfect for sugar cubes and cookies to serve along with coffee

is just stunning

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor and carved from one pieceThis American antique buttocks basket, woven of oak splint I believe, and dating to the late 19th century or so, has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint. I'd like to think this basket has had a long, productive life, used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim, and what appears to be some burn damage to