Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection This could make for a

This could make for a dramatic small serving dish

and “Precious and Other Stones Used in Jewelry”

almost rocky variegated exterior dramatically contrasting with silky smooth

and then an all over pattern of leaves/flowers on the sides and top which give it sort of a Southeast Asian feel

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection This could make for aI don't know a lot about the origins of this fantastic basket, but am pretty certain it is African, and possibly Tutsi, a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi, renowned for the baskets made by its women weavers. I believe a basket like this would have been made for the transport of goods, and that it once had a handle for carrying that was attached to the sides. I think it is truly an extraordinary object, with this wonderful bulbous,