basket
HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS & EQUIPMENT3.88 x 8.50 x 4.38
Oval shaped straw basket with lid. Has flat bottom slightly raised from the base of the basket. Floral decorations painted on basket in blue, green, red, orange, pink and white. This basket perhaps a Chinese rice - straw basket, a product of the China Trade. Ref: Talecki, Gloria Roth, The Baskets of Rural America, p. 66.
1954.1601.3117