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Hermès Picnic Fish Basket Vert Vertigo Osier Wicker Swift Palladium Hardware

Sale price$25,000.00 USD

Hermès Picnic Fish Basket Vert Vertigo Osier Wicker Swift Palladium Hardware

Picnic Fish Basket in Vert Vertigo Swift and Osier wicker with Palladium hardware. One of the more unusual objects in the Hermès Picnic program: a fish-shaped basket constructed from hand-woven Osier (willow) wicker with Swift leather trim, handle, and closure hardware. The silhouette is literal. It reads as a fish. The wicker body tapers from a wide midsection to a pointed tail, with the opening at the head end secured by a Swift leather flap and Palladium toggle clasp. The entire form is rigid, holding its shape permanently without contents.

Vert Vertigo is a bright, saturated green with more vibrancy than Vert Jade and less depth than Vert Émeraude. On Swift it reads clean and even, providing a sharp color contrast against the natural blonde wicker. The Swift leather covers the handle, flap, base reinforcement, and trim edging that frames the wicker panels. Palladium hardware cools the composition. Interior is leather-lined.

Condition: 1 – Pristine
Stamp: Inquire
Color: Vert Vertigo / Natural Osier
Material: Osier Wicker, Swift
Hardware: Palladium
Dimensions: 33 x 12.5 x 16.5 cm | 13" x 5" x 6.5"
Includes: Box, dust cover

Collector's Insight: The Picnic Fish Basket is among the rarest objects in the Hermès Picnic family. Where the Picnic Birkin and Picnic Kelly apply wicker to established bag silhouettes, the Fish Basket is its own form with no leather-only counterpart. It requires the same dual-artisan process as all Picnic pieces (basket weaver plus leather saddler) but in a sculptural shape that is harder to execute than a rectangular or trapezoidal body. Production numbers are understood to be extremely small, and the piece was not offered in a wide range of colorways. Vert Vertigo on this format is an uncommon specification.

Resale Insight: Picnic Fish Baskets appear on the secondary market far less frequently than Picnic Birkins or Kellys. The figurative shape makes it a display-grade collector object rather than a daily-use bag. The same wicker fragility rules apply: no repair path for structural damage, so pristine examples become scarcer over time as pieces in circulation sustain handling wear. The combination of rarity, visual impact, and material vulnerability positions surviving pristine examples as the most collectible tier within the broader Picnic program.


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