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Lot 3132

Three Examples of Tennessee Basketry, Mildred Youngblood and Mary Jane Prater

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1980s, woven in white oak splints, each featuring a webbed rim weave finished with the regional "X" and bar tie at the handle juncture, the first of tall buttocks form with bentwood handle, retaining card to interior indicating maker "Mary Jane Prater / Cherry Springs / Warren Co. Tenn. / R-7-McMinnville, Tn 37110 / 615-939-2863" (19 x 11 1/2 x 10 in.); the second a buttocks picnic basket form with woven handle, pencil signed and dated to the underside "Mildred / Youngblood/ 1980" (16 x 15 x 13 in.); the third basket with rectangular rim beneath a woven handle, pencil signed and dated to the interior handle juncture "Mildred Youngblood / 1982" (14 x 13 x 10 in.).

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Some light dust soiling to crevices; overall good estate condition.