Auction: Sale #2195 - 2195Location: BostonDate / Time: November 02, 2002 11:00AM
Description:
Salmon Painted Nantucket Basket, America, 19th century, round form with carved swing handle, make-do copper band repair on base, (couple cracks on base),ht. 10 5/8, dia. 14 1/2 in.
Provenance: Estate of Katherine Seeler, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
N.B. Katherine Seeler and her husband Edgar wrote and published a book Nantucket Lightship Baskets, published by the Deermouse Press, Nantucket, Massachusetts, originally published in 1972.
Estimate $800-1,200