Small Green-painted Splint Basket with Five Pieces of Wax Fruit

Description:

Small Green-painted Splint Basket with Five Pieces of Wax Fruit, 19th to early 20th century, shallow round-over-square basket with two looped thin splint handles, with green over earlier salmon paint, the basket filled with painted wax fruit: two apples, a pear, a plum, and a banana, basket ht. with handles 3 3/8, dia. 7 in.
Estimate $100-200


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