Set of Three Antique Apple Baskets

A set of three big swedish root baskets. Made out of pine roots and spruce, circa 1750-1890 Biggest basket: height: 22,5 cm diameter: 48 cm Mediu...

Fine group of three Swedish 19th and early 20th century folk art baskets, the first with polychrome decoration on a coiled willow body and having barley twist handle, the second with blue and red paint with floral decoration on a reeded body, the last of cylindrical form and having a woven snowflake pattern. Although priced as a collection, we would be willing to separate them. Size listed is for handled coiled basket...

Set of three Leedsware lattice baskets and underplate. Cobalt blue trimmed cream colored basketweave patterned pottery tray with reticulated border and ...

Set of Three Mid-Century Modern rattan bowls with brass rims. Italy, 1970s Three rattan bowls in different sizes and shapes: a tall one in round shape, an oval platter bowl and a th...

Set of three 20th century Mango baskets from Cameroon. The gorgeous color of the reed is due to the mangos dying the fiber resulting in this special golden shade.

19th Century Nest of Three Nantucket Lightship Baskets, circa 1880, a graduated set of three round, open baskets having cane weave on rattan staves, a carved swing handle with an elongated ovoid lozenge end connected to tin ears that extend down inside the weave for about a quarter length of a stave, and hardwood bottom plate, likely maple, that is slightly convex and scribed with three concentric rings, The baskets are not signed but are clearly all made by the same hand. The style of the handle with a lozenge end is very similar to that carved by Charles Ray, Capt. Thomas James, William Appleton and circle aboard the South Shoals Lightship, and continued in a more exaggerated manner ashore by A.D. Williams, Ferdinand Sylvaro and especially Mitchy Ray. The handle here has a more slender and elegant profile more akin to the work of Capt. James, suggesting that this nest was likely made by a sailor serving aboard the lightship during James' tenure. All three baskets remain in very good, strong condition, and enjoy a deep patina nicely darkened with age. Unlike most nests which really seem to be more of an assemblage gathered together after the fact, these three baskets nest together nicely with a uniform gradation in size, a feature exemplified by the perfect graduated profile of their handles. This nest was in the personal collection of noted Nantucket folk art...