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.