AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY

Details

A GREEN-PAINTED WOVEN SPLINT RECTANGULAR LIDDED BASKET ON ASH FEET
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY
lined with newspaper dated 1825
13 in. high, 16 in. wide, 13 in. deep

Provenance

Acquired in December 1990

Literature

Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 939.

Conditions of sale

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Cara Zimmerman Head of Americana and Outsider Art

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Lot Essay

This unusual footed basket may have been used as a wool drying basket. For similar examples without lids see Nancy Schiffer, Baskets (Exton, 1984), p. 117.

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