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Flower basket with bamboo-stalk handle

Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1887–1937)
Japanese
Shôwa era
about 1930

Medium/Technique Bamboo, old arrows, lacquer, gold leaf, and rattan
Dimensions Overall: 43.2 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm (17 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Lender Accessory: 50.8 x 26.7 x 26.7 cm (20 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes, Moses Kimball Fund, Denman Waldo Ross Collection, Gift of John Templemen Coolidge, Gift of Bunkio Matuski, Gift of Alden S. Foss, and Charles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession Number2006.1278
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsBasketry

Signed Box signed Furuyadake yoroibitsushiki hanakago Kaifu nansô Chikuunsai kore o tsukuru (Flower basket in the shape of an armor box, made from old arrow shafts. Made by Chikuunsai of southern Sakai)
古矢竹鎧櫃式 花籃 界府南荘 竹雲斎造之
Provenance2002, sold to Norman Brosterman, NY, by Erik Thomsen Asian Art, Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse 30, D-64625 Bernsheim, Germany