This glass basket is probably for the more specialist collector of mid-century Italian glass.
It is a 1950s freeform glass bowl - made in Venice at Murano.
It was made by Barovier & Toso and designed by the renowned Italian designer Ercole Barovier, as part of his Cordonato d'Oro range. The gold is pure gold polveri aventurine flakes and it is used in Barovier's "Cords of Gold " technique.
The bowl or basket is made of heavy, chunky translucent peppermint glass with loads of gold leaf inclusions encased within. I love all the fingers or undulating ridges of glass and the brindled gold inclusion. It is a large size in this range. It looks rather like a large rippling clam shell.
The bowl has a good bit of weight - being 1.9 kg unpacked. It measures 8 inches in length and with a width of about 5 inches. The height from the base to the top of the handle is about 5 inches.
It is in perfect condition with no damage and I have taken many images for your inspection.
It will be sent to you in the UK with Parcelforce24. This will be applied to your order at the checkout. Sadly - due to the size and weight of the glass, it would have to be UK posting only.