Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird but with plenty more fun

but with plenty more fun left in it

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

the metal is definitely hand hammered

appearing more disposed to taking a swim than taking a punch

These would be terrific framed

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird but with plenty more funThis 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