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Handled Flower Basket (T-4277)

Creator: Chikuryosai I Yamamoto
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Chikuryosai made this basket with Madake bamboo, using free-style asanoha hexagonal plaiting and wrapping.

Incised signature on bottom reads "Made by Chikuryosai".

Comes with its original lacquered bamboo water container and original fitted wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside "White-Bamboo Flower Basket" and signed inside Chikuryosai with a seal Chikuryo and with the date August 1920. Outside paper label is inscribed "Flower basket by Chikuryosai";

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Signed on the bottom of the basket and on the storage box
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Bamboo
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	1920
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Patterns:	Asian/Oriental, Contemporary/Modern, Handmade
Dealer Reference #:	T-4277
Incollect Reference #:	567032

Dimensions

W.	10.55 in;	H.	12.72 in;	D.	10.51 in;
W.	26.8 cm;	H.	32.3 cm;	D.	26.7 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.