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Handled Serving Basket (T-4635)

Creator: Chikuryosai Yamamoto II
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Susudake (smoked timber bamboo), rattan; diagonal plaiting incorporating horizontal strips, wrapping, knotting, and other techniques; asanoha hexagonal plaiting (base); copper alloy liner

Signed underneath Chikuryosai kore o tsukuru (Chikuryosai made this), with the artist’s kao (monogram)

Comes with a fitted wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Karasei o naratte morimonokago (Serving Basket Copied from a Chinese-Style Piece); signed inside Chikuryosai kore o tsukuru (Chikuryosai made this); seals: Yama Takesada in (Seal [of] Yama[moto] Takesada), Chikuryosai

The eldest son of Yamamoto Chikuryosai I, this famous maker inherited his father’s art name in 1929 and continued the family tradition, plaiting baskets mainly in versions of the Chinese style. Few morikago (serving baskets) by either artist are known, but for examples by Chikuryosai I, see Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Fendre L'Air: Art of Bamboo in Japan, exhibition catalogue, 2018, pp. 102–103 and Erik Thomsen Asian Art, Japanese Paintings and Works of Art, New York, 2010, cat. no. 21 (dated 1916).

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Signature on object and on storage box
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Bamboo and rattan
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	Ca. 1920
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Patterns:	Asian/Oriental, Handmade, Herringbone/Tweed, Plaid/Diamond
Dealer Reference #:	T-4635
Incollect Reference #:	637818

Dimensions

W.	21.34 in;	H.	15.39 in;	D.	12.44 in;
W.	54.2 cm;	H.	39.1 cm;	D.	31.6 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.