Love Token Wool Basket Pine and Bent Wood with Original Rosemaling Decoration Inscribed "Else Magrethe Andersdatter Onarheim", Dated '1863'
8 ½” high x 10 ¾” wide x 10 ¾” deep
In the Scandinavian Folk Tradition, hand made and painted love tokens made or offered by men to their loved ones, were invariably related to the spinning, weaving and smoothing of cloth. This inscribed 'rosemaling' decorated basket is a particularly fine example.
