Featured Picnic Basket

I think that’s what this is, if not picnic then some sort of basket to transport food? The age too and value if any I’m not sure of?

 

Google Lens shows a bunch of similar, identified as Chinese Food Baskets or Wedding Baskets.

 

yup......... with prices all over the board !

 

Wicker tiffin (stacked food carrier), and I also found them as wedding tiffins.
Several sites say they are made in Fujian. I don't know if that is true.

 

A similar one in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, documented as having been collected c.1925 in Hing-hwa, Fujian, China. (Note the similar metal hoop on top.) -


Smaller stacking baskets were used for carrying food for a variety of occasions, but larger ones may have been used as betrothal/dowry/wedding baskets holding gifts from the bride's family to the groom's family. These were usually made in pairs, to be transported hung on a shoulder pole.

They are a traditional form that has been made for generations.

https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/archived_objects/straits-chinese-wedding-basket-2/

 

Do you have a pungi?

 

No, but I really need one of those for my precious… ha, lol. Seriously, that cobra looks all business.

I meet his relatives every once in a while one day in the Arizona desert it was late afternoon I was detecting around this bit of sage brush and I kept hearing the sound of garden rain birds, that’s what it sounded with my headphones on rain bird sprinklers off in the distance. I pulled the headphones off and quickly looking down realized there was a big pissed off green Mohave Rattler coiled at my feet. When I saw what it was I made an Olympic long jump backwards in less than a millisecond these things are deadly, it left me jumpy the rest of the afternoon.

Crotalus scutulatus is known commonly as the Mohave Rattlesnake.[3][4] Other common English names include Mojave Rattlesnake[5][6] and, referring specifically to the nominate (northern) subspecies: Northern Mohave Rattlesnake[4] and Mojave Green Rattlesnake

Venom
History
For decades, the bite of C. scutulatus has been considered to be extraordinarily deadly, often described as the (or “one of the”) deadliest or most dangerous rattlesnakes. For example: "the most lethal of the North American rattlesnake venoms";[24] "one of the most lethal venoms among the world's reptiles";[25] "an extremely dangerous snake";[5] "probably the most dangerous snake in the United States";[26] and “considered among the most venomous snakes on Earth”

 

Well, thank you everyone looks like it’s a picnic, food, wedding basket, worth somewhere between a little bit and a little bit more or slightly more than that… lol, ain’t life great.

 

I wanted to say thank you for the auction house link the catalogs look very interesting to browse and the basket featured is a remarkable example. If the baskets return to fashion then perhaps someday I could imagine vintage ones being in higher demand maybe with a little restoration over contemporary examples for some.

 

I can top that. My bare foot next to an Australian Eastern brown snake, the world's second most venomous land snake. The first most venomous snake is also an Aussie.
When we were teens in Australia, we usually walked barefoot in the bush. Usually that is fine, but on this day there had been a bushfire and this particular snake found itself on the sandy footpath, and my foot landed right next to its head. I think the snake was more scared than I was, but I was very lucky that day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake

 

Wow, you were very lucky… maybe you charmed him into submission with beauty grace and style, or it just wasn’t your day at any rate you fortunately avoided his fangs (or hers). The link says walking slowly near they are less aggressive, but I’m going with the first thought.

Mine was a big old snake comfortable in his skin saving his venom a young one I wouldn’t have been so lucky. but at least I had boots on although the snake guards were in the Jeep, but bare feet inches from an Australian Brown Snake takes the prize.

Let’s see, giant spiders, Brown Snakes… Any Jewelry Dundee.

 

Well, not venomous but the Boa I had years ago was a sight to see crawling around the back yard.......almost 7 foot. Very tame and gentle. It was a female - the males get full of hormones and turn into biting bastards.

 

What an incredibly beautiful snake and the dog and cat look pretty happy, they also look content around her too. Did the snake ever get playful or cuddly with the dog or cat.

 

A Boa constrictor ..... cuddly
now there's a thought !

 

No, sometimes too close for comfort but no interactions.

 

yep, but sometimes you see even in some reptiles more personality than you’d think. There was a YouTube video I just watched where a lady rescued a reptile just hatching from an egg not exactly knowing what it was , as it began to grow she realized it was a crocodile and it would come when called, followed her around and liked to cuddle, perhaps it just liked the warmth but this animal had bonded and looked surprising friendly, until I guess someday when it’s 300#s and decides to eat her? Really it’s just a hug…

 

She is beautiful. Probably just looking for a place to lay her eggs. In your attic?

 

Boas give live birth - no eggs.

 

Ah, thank you. A place to give birth then.