Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor is just stunning

is just stunning

The more time I spend with this hand carved granite sculpture

I vividly remember visiting Skansen—an open-air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrialization—on a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago

Dows' biography is fascinating

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

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor is just stunningThis 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