Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Habana maybe as a cloche over

maybe as a cloche over a head of garlic

6" tall x 5 3/8" at widest and in excellent vintage condition

best known for his viking figures

Overall dimensions are 11" wide x 9 3/4" tall x 2 1/8" deep

I’d say pretty much every page of this beautiful unbound and uncut letterpress publication—which also includes a series of tipped in prints relating to the articles—is frame-worthy

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Habana maybe as a cloche overI 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,