Lot Essay
For a basket with openwork similar to that on the second basket described above, see Machmer, Just for Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991) fig.252, p.57
PENNSYLVANIA, 19TH CENTURY
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TWO COILED RYE STRAW AND OAK-SPLINT BASKETS
Pennsylvania, 19th century
The first, a circular coiled basket with openwork handles, tapering cylindrical sides and flaring circular feet; the second, a circular basket with wavy openwork rim
3½in., 10in. diameter the largest (2)
Pennsylvania, 19th century
The first, a circular coiled basket with openwork handles, tapering cylindrical sides and flaring circular feet; the second, a circular basket with wavy openwork rim
3½in., 10in. diameter the largest (2)