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Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago)

Tanabe Chikuunsai I Japanese

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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.

Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago), Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1877–1937), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan

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Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago), Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1877–1937), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan
Lily-Shaped Flower Basket (Yuri-gata hanakago), Tanabe Chikuunsai I (Japanese, 1877–1937), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan

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