Description
Summer on Nantucket begins when the ferry rounds Brant Point and the lighthouse comes into view. Passengers toss pennies overboard for luck, gulls cry overhead, and the harbor fills with sailboats. In town, the cobbled streets are lined with shops selling the island’s famous woven baskets, and a woman who has summered here since childhood still carries the one her mother gave her, its handle polished smooth by decades of trips to the farmers’ market.
This Nantucket basket with its lighthouse and nautical elements celebrates that island heritage. Wrap it up for a summer resident, a New England native, a lighthouse collector, a sailor or anyone who dreams of shingled cottages and hydrangea-lined lanes. Place it on a coastal-themed bookshelf, a beach house dresser or a desk in a city apartment as a reminder of salty summer days. It is small enough to sit on any windowsill facing the sea.
Inside and out
- A Nantucket-style basket
- Decorated with a lighthouse and nautical elements
- Measures about 2″ x 1.25″ x 1.5″
- Crafted by Rochard
- Hand-painted porcelain, produced in Limoges
Give it to friends who just bought a cottage on the coast, or to a family returning to the island every August. It holds a few sea glass pieces beautifully, or a ring removed before a swim at Jetties Beach, and it travels home neatly in a summer suitcase.
