Basket, flat and broad with base almost detached from sides. Intricately made, with coiled fibres. The reeds have been subsequently decorated, creating a geometric pattern of alternating black triangles facing in both directions, possibly depicting a lotus pattern. This pattern sits on a red background. Loose fragments in the box the basket is kept in.
Basket, flat and broad with base almost detached from sides
Bequeathed by Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Pasha, 1945, received 1947
Diameter: 33.7 cm
Height: 5.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1945) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Accession number: E.GA.1460.1947
Primary reference Number: 61481
Oldadmincategory: M
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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