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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anonymous artist, Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anonymous artist, Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anonymous artist, Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anonymous artist, Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anonymous artist, Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century

Anonymous artist

Chinese Handled Fruit Basket, 19th century
Size 10¼ x 12½ x 9¼ in. (26.2 x 32 x 23.5 cm)
T-4289
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Bamboo, rattan, lacquer; hexagonal plaiting, bending, wrapping, knotting; copper alloy liner Comes with a wood storage box inscribed outside 'Chinese flower basket' This classic Chinese basket form would later be...
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Bamboo, rattan, lacquer; hexagonal plaiting, bending, wrapping, knotting; copper alloy liner

Comes with a wood storage box inscribed outside "Chinese flower basket"

This classic Chinese basket form would later be adapted by Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877–1937) and his pupils for some of their most impressive formal presentation baskets; for examples see A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850–2015, n.p. [Catalogue of the Naej Collection], cat. nos. 99, 100 (Tanabe Chikuunsai I), 114 (Tanabe Chikuunsai II).
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