These are workhorses - moving with ease from cocktail to pool party to centerpieces. Solid wood with heavy red lacquer. This is a wonderful marriage of form and function - its whimsical handle as comfortable to the hand as it is pleasing to the eye. The heavy red lacquer that covers the scoop is in perfect condition. All of life's niceties should have such lovely accoutrements .
Red lacquer covers split bamboo and wood body - vegetal design in wire rings the base.
I think these are pretty fabulous and the white one's been road tested as a catch-all on a stool in the bathroom and has passed with flying colors. The world has too few nice wastebaskets - and nice wastebaskets of adequate size for more than a cotton ball are rare indeed. These make your most ordinary silverware and ceramics look chic and au courant . Anyway - these serve an obvious purpose with quiet class so we won't delve too deep into the evolutionary implications for the art of lacquerware.