Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection Dome lidded box: 4 3/8"

Dome lidded box: 4 3/8" tall

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

and “Precious and Other Stones Used in Jewelry”

given a brutalist sort of a treatment

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection Dome lidded box: 4 3/8"I 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,