Bidspirit auction | 3 Tiered Black Lacquered Chinese

3 Tiered Black Lacquered Chinese Wedding Basket Bakul Siah - 19th century simply designed antique black, red and gold, lacquered wood, three tiered Chinese wedding basket. Black & Gold Bakul Siah Wedding Basket Fujian, China  circa 1900 Tiered baskets such as this example made of woven cane, papier-mâché and then lacquered and gilded with additional applied auspicious emblems fabricated from lacquer and attached over the cane panels were ordered from China's Fujian province by the peranakan (localised) Chinese of Southeast Asia including the peranakan of the Straits Settlements, Phuket, Sumatra, Makassar and Java. The baskets were used in the elaborate wedding rituals that had evolved in many peranakan Chinese communities. Among the peranakan Chinese of the Straits Settlements, such baskets were known as bakul siah 'auspicious baskets'” and were used to transport wedding gifts during the twelve-day wedding, as well as during the engagement. 39cm high . 23 cm dia