Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor Dows' biography is fascinating

Dows' biography is fascinating

Really just perfect

The more time I spend with this hand carved granite sculpture

It appears as if one of his feet may have been glue back in place at some point

4 1/8" tall

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor Dows' biography is fascinatingThis 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