Chikuunsai II (1910-2000)
Item number: T-1521Size: H 8.7" x D 14.6" (22,6 x 37 cm)
Age: dated 1969
The illustrated large bamboo ikebana basket is woven in the hexagonal muttsu-me pattern using very narrow split bamboo strips. Entitled »En« or »circle,« it was exhibited at the 8th Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition in 1969.
The artist signed the basket on the bottom with an incised signature reading »Chikuunsai zô« or »made by Chikuunsai.« It comes with the original fitted kiri wood box, which is entitled on the top of the lid »En« and inscribed »Kikkô-sukashi-ami Hanakago« or »Hexagonal Open-Mesh Weave Flower Basket.« On the inside of the lid, it bears the inscription »Dai Hachi-kai Nihon Gendai Kôgei Bijutsu Tenrankai Shuppin« or »Exhibited at the 8th Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition« and is signed »Tekisuikyo Chikuunsai zô« or made by »Chikuunsai of the Tekisuikyo Studio« and stamped with two red seals reading »Tanabe no in« (»seal of Tanabe«) and Chikuunsai.
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