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Splayed Handed Flower Basket, 1939

Creator: Maeda Chikubosai I
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Maeda Chikubōsai I
Splayed Handed Flower Basket, 1939
Bamboo
Size 16¾ x 5¼ x 5¼ in. (54 x 23.5 x 23 cm)
T-4783

Signed on the base Chikubōsai kore o tsukuru (Chikubōsai made this)

Comes with the original fitted paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed Hanakago (Flower Basket); signed Shōwa jūyon u shujitsu Sen’yō Kusezato Chikubōsai kore o tsukuru (Chikubōsai of Kuse Village in the Sen’yō District [Sakai] made this in fall 1939); seal: Chikubōsai

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1920-1949
Creation Date:	1939
Styles / Movements:	Asian
Incollect Reference #:	683693

Dimensions

W.	9.25 in;	H.	21.26 in;	D.	9.06 in;
W.	23.5 cm;	H.	54 cm;	D.	23 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.