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A bamboo basket By Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910-2000), Showa Period image 1
A bamboo basket By Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910-2000), Showa Period image 2
Lot 300*

A bamboo basket
By Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910-2000), Showa Period

11 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A bamboo basket

By Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910-2000), Showa Period
A rounded, oval basket with a low handle set off-centre, constructed of loosely woven banded handles, signed Chikuunsai zo; with tomobako titled on lid Isotakara, hanakago (Treasure of the seashore, flower basket), signed inside by the artist Tekisuikyo, Chikuunsai zo with two seals Tanabe no in and Chikuunsai. 13.3cm x 28cm (5¼in x 11in). (2).

Footnotes

竹製花籠 磯宝 二代田邊竹雲斎 昭和時代

The artist name Chikuunsai belongs to the Tanabe family, one of the most important bamboo-basket makers of Osaka. Chikuunsai I lived from 1877-1937; this basket is made by his son Chikuunsai II; he in turn passed on the artist name to his oldest son, Chikuunsai II (b.1940), in 1991. The son of Chikuunsai III, Tanabe Shochiku III (b.1973), continues the bamboo tradition as the fourth generation bamboo maker of the Tanabe family.

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