Product Description

Antique Sumatran Ceremonial Rice Basket

Material: Rattan, lacquer, wood
Style:  Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Size: Height 14 cm, Diameter 18 cm (top)
Order Number: MHSASCRB1

This finely woven rattan basket was used at important feasts in Sumatra to hold and serve cooked rice from. The sides of the basket are decorated. There is a wooden stand with four legs. 

Rattan is a tropical climbing palm, using long thorns to climb up other jungle plants, and reaching lengths of over 150 metres (490 feet) but only a few centimetres thick. It is probably the most popular basket making material. It is very strong.

19th – early 20th century.

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