Featured Woven Basket

I've never bought baskets before and never even looked at them. Somehow this caught my eye. Any idea of origin and age?
Thanks

 

I can't help but wanted to say --

Wonderful photos, Kardinalisimo.

 

It's from Lombok, Indonesia. Similar ones are made in other Asian countries, especially the Philippines, but those usually have a square base, and the similar ones from China usually have a different type of start, and a characteristic "U" shaped pattern of weaving.

 

It's much nicer and more refined and bigger than the one's I'm used to seeing & I'm sure the single rod coiling makes it hard as a football....( not a Pat's football.! ) & I'd suspect there's some age to it too !

 

Thanks for the replies. It is very hard so I guess it is coiled rattan.
I found the same basket but with a little figurine on the top. It says to be Philippine.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/445786063093541315/

 

Seems like it is indeed an "ulbong", container used for storage of milled rice.
Either by Ifugao or Bantok native people.
I thought the basket was stained but I found this:

"The black color of Bontok storage baskets, like that of the Ifugao's, results from the special heat-conserving construction of the houses. There are no windows, and the smoke from the hearth tends to permeate the small structure, resulting in a sooty black finish on many objects that remain indoors"

http://class.csueastbay.edu/anthropologymuseum/virtmus/Philippines/Crafts/Bontok_basketry.htm