Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird And the threaded top half

And the threaded top half screws tightly onto the bottom to keep anything inside super secure

it would be pretty great just sitting on the counter

but with plenty more fun left in it

These would be terrific framed

a mish mash of square and round windows

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket ceramic bluebird And the threaded top halfThis 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