A BAMBOO BASKET FOR FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SHOUNSAI ZO (UEDA SHOUNSAI; 1897-1990)

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A BAMBOO BASKET FOR FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SHOUNSAI ZO (UEDA SHOUNSAI; 1897-1990)
Woven with intersecting bamboo plaits and vertical ribs formed from arrow shafts, with short handle of bamboo root and cylindrical bamboo liner
14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm.) high
With an original box titled Yadake chikkon tetsuki tsuten kabin (bamboo arrow tall vase with bamboo root handle), signed and dated Showa nedoshi shoshu Shounsai zo, sealed Shoun

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Lot Essay

Ueda Shounsai apprenticed to Tanabe Chiku'unsai I (1877-1937), one of the most important bamboo artists working in the first half of the 20th century in Osaka Prefecture. Shounsai used some lacquered bamboo arrow shafts to construct vertical lines on this basket which is the technique originally developed by Chiku'unsai III (1941-2014).

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