Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles made in France or giving pride of place

or giving pride of place to any photo at all

The copper cover is really lovely

I have found a few different Mary Rand's who were artists

and the wood has been left untreated

and handy for a wide variety of tasks

Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles made in France or giving pride of placeThis pine needle basket tray, probably mid 20th century and Coushatta (Southeast U. S native), is just lovely, with a terrific interplay between the warm brown of the pine needles and the light stitching, which creates a spiral pattern as it joins one pine needle bundle to the next. Plus those beautifully knotted "golden sun" details at the handles and center! The basket, which I believe was made to hold a pie plate, seems to have been finished with a