Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles hand-woven textile Toward the bottom of the

Toward the bottom of the short sides of the bottle Chinese characters are carved

This is a terrific hand-thrown studio pottery bowl glazed with a grayish cream slip and decorated with wonderful large roundish dark blue spots

which I have shot here with some magnification

)  The painting measures 15" tall x 11 1/4" wide

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Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles hand-woven textile Toward the bottom of theThis 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