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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4998531, member: 8267&quot;]More thoughts - I have seen the Shanxi baskets described as being made of wood (elm, when specified) and reed or willow. From your closeups, it looks like the &quot;fabric&quot; of your basket is made of willow - you can see the tell tale leaf scars. The binding around the wood frame certainly looks like willow skeins (split willow). The whole thing seems to have an artificial patina - the kind of antiquing you often see on recent imports. It might be Chinese, a modern imitation of their own older styles, or it might be Indonesian, as Any suggested.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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