Medieval Baskets -- Italian, Late 14th Century
Shown below are simple round baskets with roped arched handles.  The illustrations are all from a late 14th Century northern Italian manuscript published as The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti (NY: Facts on File, 1984).

simple round basket 1
 simple round basket 2
Saffron, p 11
 Sour Apples, p 34


simple round basket 3
 simple round basket 4
Truffles, p 84
 Roosters, p 115