Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Each a rib type form woven in oak splints, the largest of buttocks form, pencil signed and dated "Georgia Youngblood 1980 / Short Mtn Area / Cannon Co / Tenn" to the underside handle (11 x 14 x 11 in.); the second a diminutive basket, vertical rim weave, worn ink signature to the underside is partially legible "From: Granny....Rose...6/20/35" (5 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); the last two circa 1980s, each Cannon county type with distinctive high arched handle, the larger with squared rim and woven handle (13 x 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.), and the smaller of egg basket form with bentwood handle (10 x 8 x 8 in.), both retaining notes to interior indicating maker as "Sepal Mathis Simpson" of Woodbury, Tennessee.
Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina Smaller with some loss to weave; all with light dust soiling to crevices.
