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Flower basket with bamboo-stalk handle
Flower basket with bamboo-stalk handle

Flower basket with bamboo-stalk handle

Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1887–1937)
about 1930
Medium/TechniqueBamboo, old arrows, lacquer, gold leaf, and rattan
DimensionsOverall: 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 LineMuseum 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
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBasketry
Collections
Provenance2002, sold to Norman Brosterman, NY, by Erik Thomsen Asian Art, Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse 30, D-64625 Bernsheim, Germany
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