Carved whalebone basket

basket

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS
marad; scrimshaw
bone; wood; plastic
Overall: 7 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.

Oval panbone lattice-work basket with a curved, carved, flat, whalebone handle. Carved wooden bottom with large inlaid diamond of tortoise shell in the center; add'l inlaid decoration around the diamond. Ends of the lattice-work notched.
Same hand as 1947.1405 and 1947.1406

1939.1937