Straw Decorative Baskets

This is an old container woven from straw. Over the years, it has turned black with soot. It is thought to have been used in a private home in the Tohoku region, but its exact purpo...

This is an old basket made in Japan. The materials used are bamboo, mountain grape bark, and straw, giving it the warmth of natural materials. It was made in the early Showa period (...

20th Century Handwoven African Bolga Basket with Leather Handle This beautifully handwoven 20th-century Bolga basket is a soft-formed, organic piece made in the Bolgatanga region of...

French Moroccan Straw Basket Tote Bag with Silver Leather Handles. Large vintage organic shopping raffia bag, or beach bag. Handcrafted in Morocco using natural organic 100% natural palm leaves While straw trends always dominate Spring & Summer, the natural wheat straw French Moroccan basket stands out as a symbol of eco-consciousness and ethical values and is in always in style. Whether you're headed to the beach or a picnic, or to the Farmers Market, this braided straw basket is the ideal basket and large enough to hold a lot. Size : 26 in wide on top, 13 in at the bottom. 10 in depth x 12 in height for the basket Total height with the handles: 18 in height. The handle are 5 inches. Handcrafted in Marrakech Morocco mostly for the European, Italian, Spain and French market, French women use this style bag on the beaches of St Tropez, Cannes, Italian coast and Ibiza, light and easy to carry. Gucci was so inspired by the Moroccan Basket than they created a similar beach straw beach bag...

A lovely example of basketweaving skills, this late 19th century English straw bee skep, or temporary beehive, shows beautiful color and shape in tightly coiled fibers to mimic a hiv...

Midcentury amazing decorative basket in lucite, rattan and chrome in the style of Christian Dior Home. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Great accessory for any modern interior.

Early 20th Century Orcadian or Islands Foraging Basket. Wonderful slooping form. as expected condition, perfectly useable Orkney Circa 1900 - 1920

Of ovoid shape and woven in horizontal segments, with original top

The Massive Mid 20th Century Basket was part of a collection of baskets found in the original basket weaving community where it was originally wo...

A handsome and heavily woven rattan or straw waste can - the piece is substantial and very sturdy. A compliment to any office or space that lends itself t...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

Antique French handwoven wicker grape harvesting basket with wood handles. Overall very good condition early form and color, early 20th century. Vintage wicker harvest round shape basket. This large woven basket...