Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird and is adhered to a

and is adhered to a paper backing (on which text is written) which measures 6” x 7 3/8”

it would be pretty great just sitting on the counter

These would be terrific framed

a mish mash of square and round windows

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird and is adhered to aThis 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