Chinese Antique Wooden Paddy Field Trug (2) Decorative Other

Chinese Antique Wooden Paddy Field Trug (2) Decorative OtherThese wonderful wooden boxes make perfect magazine racks beside your sofa or hand towels or kindling holders. Used in the paddy fields to carry seedlings for planting, the individual seedlings would be taken from the (floating) basket and plunged into the soil. Every one is very individual and totally unique as they were hand made by the farmers in their own unique way. Timber may be dark or light and they are made from mixed woods. The dimensions are

allowing for convenient storage of various items

Plate 2: This hand-painted plate has a depiction of a scene from a Chinese opera

Its a deep dark brown colour and perfectly oval

This basket would make an excellent picnic basket or unique storage space for any contemporary home

to offer provisions for the afterlife

it would have been used to display domestic items

its of medium size and hand carved from one piece of wood

which were common throughout China

figures and Greeting Pine trees

Cotton was not common in Japan until well into the twentieth century

They were crafted in a flower style

with the curved arms ending to meet the front supporting posts and the top rail fitted flush to the side posts