Antique Nantucket Lightship Basket

Originally crafted by lonely keepers who tended the floating lightships that marked the shoal-lined waters around Nantucket starting in the 1890s, Nantucket Lightship Baskets are woven from rattan with cane staves, a solid wood base and swing handles. They often feature a close top adorned with scrimshawed fossilized wooly mammoth, but our selection of rare antique baskets represents a more rustic style, possessing a beautiful, darkened patina, swing handles and an open top.

Basket made by José Formoso Reyes (1902-1980) circa 1950.

Measures 6-3/4" by 5-1/2" oval by 4" high