Three Painted Tinware Bread Baskets

Description:

Three Painted Tinware Bread Baskets, America, early 19th century, one elliptical with pierced handles and floral-decorated rim band with crystallized gold-colored surface on the bottom, all on an asphaltum ground; the other two rectangular with chamferred and curved sides, one ornamented with fruit and foliage on white bands on an asphaltum ground, one with foliate-decorated red bands on a black ground, (paint wear, spots of retouch),ht. 3-4 1/4, dia. 12-14 in.
Estimate $400-600