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Yamamoto Shoken (active 1945-circa 1967) A Handled Bamboo Flower Basket in Suehiro FormShowa era (1829–1989), 1967 image 1
Yamamoto Shoken (active 1945-circa 1967) A Handled Bamboo Flower Basket in Suehiro FormShowa era (1829–1989), 1967 image 2
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Yamamoto Shoken (active 1945-circa 1967)
A Handled Bamboo Flower Basket in Suehiro Form
Showa era (1829–1989), 1967

20 March 2019, 13:00 EDT
New York

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Yamamoto Shoken (active 1945-circa 1967)

A Handled Bamboo Flower Basket in Suehiro Form
Showa era (1829–1989), 1967

Of madake bamboo, chiefly executed in diagonal plaiting, the base in hexagonal plaiting, the base, uprights, rim, and handle with knotted rattan, signed on the base Shoken kore o tsukuru (Shoken made this)

With wooden tomobako storage box signed and inscribed Showa hinoto-hitsuji shoshun Minosanroku Shoken kore o tsukuru (Shoken made this at the foot of Mount Mino in October 1967), with seals Shoken, Yusei
18in (45.7cm) high

Footnotes

For further examples of baskets by this little-known and versatile artist, the younger brother of Yamamoto Chikuryosai II and a member of the Teikoku Bijutsuin (Japan Art Academy), see A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850-2015, n.p. [Catalogue of the Naej Collection], cat. nos. 60-63 and p. 202; one of these (cat. no. 63) has a box inscribed with the same reference to Mount Mino (to the north of downtown Osaka). The present lot appears to be his only published dated work.

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