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This illustrated barrel shop sign is made of two articles, a basin and a barrel, placed in front of the shop to attract customers. Wooden basins and barrels used for washing and water containers used to be household necessities, and parts of dowries. For this reason, they were painted red both inside and outside. Some were only painted in tung oil to prevent cracking and leaking.

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Hooper

Daily articles, like wooden buckets and basins, are made of wood staves and bound with rattan, bamboo strips or iron hoops. Putty was used then to fill cracks. However, after some time, these...

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