Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup molded a quintessential example of mid-century

a quintessential example of mid-century Italian ceramics

--hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

though it reminds me so much of the work of Clarice Cliff (British)

though I do not know its maker

and signed on the bottom with what appears to be a stylized SL

Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup molded a quintessential example of mid-centuryThis is a very sweet, finely woven little Native American Wabanaki (encompassing the Micmac, Penobscot, and Passamoquoddy Nations, from Maine and Eastern Canada) basket, handwoven from sweetgrass and ash splints. Based on similar examples I have seen, I believe it dates from the 1920s 1930s. The ash splints, visible at the center and edge of the lid, and on and around the bottom of the basket (as well as peeking through in a few spots through the