African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina numbered disks barrel lock I've been on the lookout

I've been on the lookout

While the tile shows its age in the form of scratches to the surface revealing the red clay below the glaze

Framed: 16 3/4" x  20 3/4" x  5/8"

I assume it was made in Japan for Western export

African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina numbered disks barrel lock I've been on the lookoutI find this basket a deeply beautiful thing, in very large part for its very rich patina which is what won the dealer I purchased it from too, who lived with it for some 30+ years. It is African, from the Pokot tribe of Kenya I believe, and would have been used for grain and flour. Clearly very much used, with a leather carrying strap that wore through at center from the weight of carrying things in it. (One broken end was pulled through a hole in the