Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection Made in the 1940s

Made in the 1940s

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

signed Lisa Herb

and some roughness to the interior lip (not visible when closed)

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African ceramic collection Made in the 1940sI 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,