Antique Qing Cypress Well Bucket

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Antique Qing Cypress Well Bucket:
$475.00

A late 19th century Chinese cypress wood well bucket from the Shaanxi Province has great folk appeal, with its heavy iron fittings and unusual shape. This is a very unusual piece made to carry large quantities of water from the village well. The bottom comes to a point and fits inside a simple wood stand (this stand created later, original stand gone) a cleaver design that holds he heavy bucket secure yet allows it to be tipped to pour water. The cypress staves are narrowed and shaped inward to form the bottom point, and the problem of making such a design watertight was solved by capping the wood point with a second wood point rimmed in iron. The wood and iron fittings are nicely worn and aged, and the piece is in solid condition, however it is no longer water tight.