Lot Essay
As noted in David H. Wood's The Lightship Baskets of Nantucket: A Continuing Craft, this basket formerly bore the card of William D. Appleton (1857-1918).
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FAVORITES FROM THE COLLECTION OF KRISTINA BARBARA JOHNSON
A TALL HEART-HANDLED LIGHTSHIP BASKET
PROBABLY WILLIAM D. APPLETON (1857-1918), NANTUCKET, DATED 1907
Details
A TALL HEART-HANDLED LIGHTSHIP BASKET
PROBABLY WILLIAM D. APPLETON (1857-1918), NANTUCKET, DATED 1907
underside dated 1907
15½ in. high, 11 in. diameter
PROBABLY WILLIAM D. APPLETON (1857-1918), NANTUCKET, DATED 1907
underside dated 1907
15½ in. high, 11 in. diameter
Provenance
Collection of Jeffrey and Francine Cohen
Sold, Richard A. Bourne Co. Inc., Hyannis, Massachusetts, 31 July 1989, lot 39
Sold, Richard A. Bourne Co. Inc., Hyannis, Massachusetts, 31 July 1989, lot 39
Literature
Folk Art: Imaginative Works from American Hands (Alexandria, 1988), p. 164.
David H. Wood, The Lightship Baskets of Nantucket: A Continuing Craft (Nantucket, 1994), p. 57, ill. 42.
David H. Wood, The Lightship Baskets of Nantucket: A Continuing Craft (Nantucket, 1994), p. 57, ill. 42.
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