Wooden Bucket Collection

Two chimney ornaments for used matches: marble vase and wooden bucket
6338697 Two chimney ornaments for used matches: marble vase and wooden bucket by Sluyter, D. (18th century); (add.info.: Two chimney ornaments for used matches: marble vase and wooden bucket)

A Victorian Christmas card of a lake with two kittens in a wooden bucket using a wooden
3603465 A Victorian Christmas card of a lake with two kittens in a wooden bucket using a wooden spoon as a paddle, c.1880 (colour litho) by English School

A Victorian greeting card of two kittens playing with a wooden bucket and dustpan, c
3603460 A Victorian greeting card of two kittens playing with a wooden bucket and dustpan, c.1880 (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; Photo eDavid Pearson; English

Unemployed men gather stones for use in the potteries
****BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE**** Unemployed men gather stones for use in the potteries. Location where this picture was taken is unknown. Picture taken circa 1st October 1933

Woman Selling Herrings herring saleswoman young woman
Woman Selling Herrings, The herring saleswoman. A young woman, half-length, holds a herring up in her left hand, a wooden bucket on the right, adult woman, selling, bony fishes: herring, merchant

Milking Time milking maid teased servant barn
After Milking Time, After milking. A maid is teased by a servant in a barn. She is pouring milk from a wooden bucket into a large copper milk canister

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Young girl peeling apples for her mother. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Camp coffeepot at a Continental Army reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Landscape with grindstone, Hermanus Fock, 1781-1822

Drinking peasant, Pieter Nolpe, Pieter Jansz. Quast, 1623 - 1653

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Woman in cottage doorway emptying a slop bucket near a well. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Amidst the frosty winter scene on a Victorian Christmas card, two playful kittens cozily huddle in a worn wooden bucket, their paws paddling in the water, while chimney ornaments of used matches keep warm by the fire. Elsewhere, a young herring saleswoman proudly displays her catch in a wooden bucket, as unemployed men gather stones for the potteries, their hands calloused from hard labor. In a different time and place, a milking maid teases a servant with a wooden bucket and dustpan, while a landscape painting depicts a grindstone nestled between rolling hills. And in yet another scene, a peasant takes a break from his day's work, raising a wooden mug in a toast to the simple pleasures of life. Through these images, the humble wooden bucket remains a constant, a symbol of the everyday and the essential.