Hi, what you have is the base to a covered vegetable. It would have had a lid. You can search online for “blue willow covered vegetable” and probably see many different examples. People would hang the bases (and the lids, too), as yours is set up for. Unmarked, we can’t know the maker for sure, but as a guess I would say it would be from the second half of the 19th century. Enjoy your find!
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