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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).

£3,000 - 5,000
JPY440,000 - 730,000
US$3,900 - 6,500
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ANONYMOUS
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century
A flower basket in the form of an ebira (samurai arrow
quiver), of wood, bamboo, and rattan, carved, bent, and
knotted; the reverse signed in lacquer Uda masson Kimura
Tsunatomi (Kimura Tsunatomi, latest descendant of the
Uda family) with a kao; with a wood storage box.
44.5cm x 15.5cm x 9.5cm (17½in x 6 1/8in x 3¾in). (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
JPY440,000 - 730,000
US$3,900 - 6,500
For a very similar example, with a paper label describing
it as a quiver but also giving it the title hana-ike (‘flower
container’), see A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of
Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850-2015 (Catalogue of the Naej
Collection), n.p. (distributed by John Adamson Books),
cat. no.10.

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