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Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago)

1926–37
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
Many of Tanabe Chikuunsai I’s graceful Ryūrikyō works are hanging baskets, but he also made fan-shaped, round, and complex tiered examples, all executed in refined, minute plaiting and often integrating passages of openwork. He participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Some of Chikuunsai’s baskets were created explicitly for exhibition, and one received an award at the influential Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, which helped introduce the Art Deco aesthetic.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 初代田邊竹雲斎造　百合形花籃
  • Title: Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago)
  • Artist: Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1877–1937)
  • Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
  • Date: 1926–37
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Timber bamboo and rattan
  • Dimensions: H. 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm); W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); D. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
  • Classification: Bamboo
  • Credit Line: Lent by Diane and Arthur Abbey
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art