Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block Handmade in Portugal

Handmade in Portugal

The base measures 5 3/4" across

but I have not been able to find it in the The New Yorker's archive in order to date it--but surely what makes for demographic perfection has become more complex and conflicted since it was published

Featured in the fifth edition of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook by Glenn C

with a wonderfully expressive face

Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block Handmade in PortugalThis is a beautiful large painted swabbed antique ash splint rectangular work basket, 19th century New England Maine Native American I believe, with wonderfully irregular notched bentwood handles. While the naturally dyed color has certainly faded over time, it still shows quite nicely on the horizontal splints; with two thin bands of yellow, then two red, then two brown, then one wide yellow, and two thin red at the very bottom. The basket is sturdy