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Antique Woven Tea Basket
Ref: 5016
There’s a beautiful simplicity and abstraction to the form of this antique woven tea basket from the Himalayan lowlands, and of a distinctly oriental kind, although based on practicalities, the basket is presumably sized in it’s body to fit to the back of a tea picker, but the top fans out in a broad slightly asymmetric way to facilitate harvesting leaves over one’s shoulder. This one is very good condition and has nice colour and patina. One of only three remaining in stock.
Nepal / Himalayas early 20th cent.
H: 40cm (15.7in)
W: 50cm (19.7in)
D: 51cm (20.1in)
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