A BLACK-PAINTED PUNCH-DECORATED AND TOOLED LEATHER KEYBASKET
PROPERTY OF A VIRGINIA COLLECTOR
A BLACK-PAINTED PUNCH-DECORATED AND TOOLED LEATHER KEYBASKET

VIRGINIA, 19TH CENTURY

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A BLACK-PAINTED PUNCH-DECORATED AND TOOLED LEATHER KEYBASKET
Virginia, 19th century
Rectangular, with tapering sides and arched handle with brassed-headed pins, the sides with punched shell and leaf decorated reserves enclosing abstracted tooled leaves

6in. high, 7¾in. wide, 5in. wide

拍品專文

For another tooled leather key basket from Virginia, see Hollander, et al., American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York, 2001), p. 178, fig. 146.