Scrimshaw Sewing Basket of walnut with whale bone inlay. Dove in a floral setting, with inserts to all eight sides. Probably made by a ship's carpenter; from a Mystic, Connecticut whaling family.
Nice vertical shellwork arrangement to replicate floral pieces with marine shells, set on a base within a period glass dome. There is a single masted sloop in the center of the base, with a solitary crossed spar on the mast.