Vintage Round Wicker Gathering Basket | Rustic French Country Market Basket

There is something wonderfully timeless about an old woven basket — practical enough to be used every day, yet beautiful enough to become part of the room.

This lovely vintage round wicker basket has a generous, shallow shape with a tall sweeping handle and warm honey-brown tones that immediately bring to mind old French markets, country kitchens and days spent gathering produce from the garden.

The basket has been beautifully constructed with tightly woven sides, a substantial multi-strand handle and a particularly attractive patterned weave across the base. The slightly irregular natural colouring and gentle signs of age give it exactly the character we look for in an authentic vintage basket.

Measurements

Approximately:

38cm diameter × 36cm high to the top of the handle

Why We Like It

It's the shape that really makes this basket.

The wide circular form feels much more decorative than a conventional shopping basket, while the large arched handle gives it a wonderful silhouette when displayed.

Look inside and there is another lovely detail — the tightly woven base forms an almost starburst pattern at its centre, a reminder of the craftsmanship involved in making traditional baskets like this.

It's also one of those vintage pieces that can continually find a new purpose around the home.

Fill it with apples in the kitchen, use it for freshly cut flowers or vegetables from the garden, keep rolled hand towels inside it, or simply leave it empty on an old table or dresser.

Perfect For

• Country and farmhouse kitchens
• French country interiors
• Fruit and vegetable storage
• Garden gathering
• Flowers and dried arrangements
• Pantry storage
• Towels and linens
• Craft and knitting storage
• Fireside storage
• Rustic wedding styling
• Photography and restaurant props

It would look particularly lovely filled with seasonal produce — apples and pears in autumn, garden flowers in summer or greenery at Christmas.

Condition

Vintage condition with the natural variations, surface marks and signs of age expected from a previously used woven basket. These are part of its rustic character. Please study the photographs, including the close-up images, for the weave and overall condition.

From the Brocante Trail

Old baskets are some of our favourite finds because they were never intended simply to be decorative.

They were made to be carried, filled and used — from collecting vegetables in the garden to bringing provisions home from the market.

Decades later, that simple usefulness is precisely what makes them so appealing.

This one has a particularly lovely shape and warm, mellow colouring that would sit effortlessly in a relaxed country home.

Every treasure has a story. This one found us on the Brocante trail. Now it’s waiting to become part of yours.