A Good 19thC Stitched Vellum Bucket c.1830-50
SOLD
Origin: English
Period: William IV/Early-Victorian
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1830-50
Diameter: 17”
Height: 14.75”
In entirely original condition and of good size, the wonderfully well and boldly stitched vellum bucket of beautiful cigar colour showing a wonderful patina and one side of large diagonal stitches to a collared rim and to a stitched bottom, surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
The bucket is in entirely untouched condition with no restoration or repair. There is some expected misshapenness as photographed.
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These vellum buckets were made mainly in the first half of the nineteenth century and usually used in cotton factories.
Not only still useful today but a wonderful statement piece of folk art and of super colour, smell and texture.
Period: William IV/Early-Victorian
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1830-50
Diameter: 17”
Height: 14.75”
In entirely original condition and of good size, the wonderfully well and boldly stitched vellum bucket of beautiful cigar colour showing a wonderful patina and one side of large diagonal stitches to a collared rim and to a stitched bottom, surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
The bucket is in entirely untouched condition with no restoration or repair. There is some expected misshapenness as photographed.
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These vellum buckets were made mainly in the first half of the nineteenth century and usually used in cotton factories.
Not only still useful today but a wonderful statement piece of folk art and of super colour, smell and texture.