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Handled Flower Basket (T-4132)

Creator: Maeda Tounsai
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Tounsai made this basket with susudake bamboo, rattan, and lacquer, using the techniques of twill plaiting, looping, twining, and wrapping.
Incised signature on the bottom reads Tounsai.

The basket comes with its original lacquered bamboo water container and a fitted wooden storage box.

Tounsai was listed as active in the Kanto region (Tokyo and surrounding prefectures) in the pre-war period. The use of dust fixed with lacquer to give an antique appearance and the exposed loops securing the handle are features also seen in works by Iizuka Rokansai dating from about 1930. For a work by Tounsai in the Lloyd Cotsen collection, see Joseph Newland, ed., Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture, Los Angeles, Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999, p. 59, no.42.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Signed on bottom basket
Origin:	Japan
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Bamboo, rattan, and lacquer
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	1930s
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Patterns:	Asian/Oriental, Handmade, Modern
Dealer Reference #:	T-4132
Incollect Reference #:	567096

Dimensions

W.	11.22 in;	H.	16.73 in;	D.	11.42 in;
W.	28.5 cm;	H.	42.5 cm;	D.	29 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.