Large Round Antique Wooden Bucket material-wood Today they make useful containers

Today they make useful containers for logs or kindling

Once used to carry water

They are in matching geometrical patterns

decorated in gold with jasmine blossom

The cabinet is a reproduction of pieces typically produced in Shanxi province in central China for hundreds of years and includes shaped brass hardware on the doors

Large Round Antique Wooden Bucket material-wood Today they make useful containersHunan, circa 1920 These old buckets date from the early 20th century and are from Hunan province in southern China. Mostly made from fir wood, they vary slightly in size and style and still have the old metal hoops and supporting braces on the handles. Today they make useful containers for logs or kindling, as magazine or toilet roll holders, or as indoor planters.