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”

a mish mash of square and round windows

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

and which makes a handy backing for either framing it or simply hanging it directly on the wall

These would be terrific framed

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