Tanabe Chikuunsai I
Large Handled Fruit Basket, 1920s
Size 16½ x 17½ x 17½ in. (42.3 x 44.6 x 44.6 cm)
T-4225
Madake bamboo, rattan, lacquer; twining, diagonal plaiting, circular plaiting (base), wrapping, knotting Signed underneath: Chikuunsai (Chikuunsai) This is one of several Chinese-derived basket forms that the first Tanabe Chikuunsai, widely...
Madake bamboo, rattan, lacquer; twining, diagonal plaiting, circular plaiting (base), wrapping, knotting
Signed underneath: Chikuunsai (Chikuunsai)
This is one of several Chinese-derived basket forms that the first Tanabe Chikuunsai, widely regarded as one of the most influential of all Japanese bamboo artists, developed during the peak of his career in the 1920s. The original inspiration may perhaps have been a special commission that he received from his home town of Sakai (in present-day Osaka) to make a fruit basket to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of the Taisho Emperor in 1925; see A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850-2015, [Catalogue of the Naej Collection], 2017, cat. no. 100/
Signed underneath: Chikuunsai (Chikuunsai)
This is one of several Chinese-derived basket forms that the first Tanabe Chikuunsai, widely regarded as one of the most influential of all Japanese bamboo artists, developed during the peak of his career in the 1920s. The original inspiration may perhaps have been a special commission that he received from his home town of Sakai (in present-day Osaka) to make a fruit basket to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of the Taisho Emperor in 1925; see A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850-2015, [Catalogue of the Naej Collection], 2017, cat. no. 100/