Vintage Nantucket "Cocktail Purse" by the Wooden Jug, Signed and Dated, Nantucket 1967
InformationCharming vintage Nantucket Lightship Basket Purse by "Bee" and Helen of The Wooden Jug signed and dated 1967. Features a carved seagull ornament, knobs, and peg. A perfect size basket that is small enough to almost be called a "cocktail" but just big enough to fit a iPhone Max. (FA1254)
Condition: Basket condition is excellent and it has a warm deep patina.
Dimensions: 9" width overall by 6" high.
Note: In the mid-1960s, a small workshop on Cliff Road in Nantucket became home to one of the island's most distinctive lightship basket studios: The Wooden Jug. Founded by women partners known simply as Bee and Helen, the studio produced hand-woven oval covered baskets in a community with mostly male weavers. A distinctive feature of Wooden Jug baskets are the notches carved into the ends of the swing handles. Their baskets are further identified by the signature on the bottom "The Wooden Jug, Bee and Helen (Makers), Made on Nantucket Island, (date)"
1967
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