Aura-Full, Very Heavy, Early American Mirror in Red Paint animal drawings Cranbrook Academy

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This is a lovely Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a glass jar to serve as a vase

I'm not sure what this treen canister was made to hold

the matriarch I assume rolling out the dough

Aura-Full, Very Heavy, Early American Mirror in Red Paint animal drawings Cranbrook AcademyI might have bought this one for myself it's impossible to communicate its presence and very surprising heft! through photos, but I can tell you it's a beautiful and special feeling thing. And I love a mirror that was likely the only one in a household, a precious thing this one with its original back, nailed on, forever sealing that mirror inside. Clad in early red paint and with most excellent aging and de silvering to the mirror over time.