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MAEDA CHIKUBOSAI I (1872-1950)
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 1920s-1930s
A boat-shaped handled bamboo flower basket, chiefly executed in
quadruple and double hexagonal plaiting with rattan knotting to the
handle which is formed in the artist’s usual style with natural stems
of bamboo; signed on the base Chikubosai kore o tsukuru
(This was made by Chikubosai).
23cm x 72cm x 24.5cm (9in x 28 3/8in x 9 5/8in).
£2,000 - 3,000
JPY260,000 - 400,000
US$2,500 - 3,700
For more information on the artist, please also see the footnote to lot 111.

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TANABE CHIKUUNSAI II (1910-2000)
Showa era (1926-1989), 1945-1956
A tall-handled bamboo flower basket, chiefly executed in gozame
(mat-plaiting) technique with extensive fine rattan knotting to the
handle and rim, and finished in lacquer, with a striated and lacquered
otoshi (water holder) cut from a whole section of bamboo; signed
on the base Chikuunsai tsukuru (Made by Chikuunsai); with a wood
tomobako storage box inscribed and signed Fuki takate tsubogata
hanakago Tekisuikyo Chikuunsai tsukuru (‘Riches and Honours’
tall-handled pot-shaped flower basket, made by Tekisuikyo Chikuunsai)
and sealed Denri no in (Seal of Denri) and Chikuunsai.
59cm (23¼in) high. (3).

£2,000 - 3,000
JPY260,000 - 400,000
US$2,500 - 3,700

The second Chikuunsai, based in Osaka, seems to have copied the
practice of naming his baskets from his Tokyo rival Iizuka Rokansai,
who pioneered the title Fuki (‘Riches and Honours’) in 1926;
see Suzuki Satomi, ‘Iizuka Rokansai ni miru kindai takekogei no
geijutsusei (Iizuka Rokansai: The Evolution of Modern Bamboo Art)’,
in Jinbungakkai zasshi (The Journal of Human and Cultural Sciences),
38.2 (November 2006), 93-122, p.97.
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