antique nantucket lightship basket
Nantucket Lightship Basket
William H. Chadwick, Nantucket
c. 1885
Oak staves, rim and handle with birch bottom
Ht. 4 3/8”, Diam. 5 7/8”
Branded “HADWICK” on underside
$2,400
Provenance: William Emerson Chadwick, son; Marjorie Burgess, niece; Christie’s, January 2008, lot 428; Private Texas Collection
Exhibition: Nantucket, Massachusetts, Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum, 2006
Literature: Carpenter and Carpenter, The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket (1987), pp. 190-192, illus. fig. 180 & 181.