Extremely Fine Pine Needle Flat Lidded Basket, Presumed Antique Native American large mid-century Italian planter with 208 pages

with 208 pages

and this feels like a very special piece indeed

revealing very light wear) and measures 3 1/2" tall x 1 5/8 across at base

I don't know much of anything about it

but I'd be more inclined to keep it for myself

Extremely Fine Pine Needle Flat Lidded Basket, Presumed Antique Native American large mid-century Italian planter with 208 pagesThis is the finest pine needle basket I've ever seen, and I've looked at a fair number and sold a number of them. It's like an incredibly intricate little nest, light as a feather, just exquisite like the hushed floor of the forest distilled into the perfect object. The needles are a gorgeous shade of deep brown, and the stitching holding them together just beautiful. The lid sits flat across the top of the basket, resting. It bears the remnant of an