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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Asian Art | Online Auction
• Sale Date:
  12 Apr 2023 ~ 2pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  24
• Lot Description:
  A lacquered rattan and bamboo ikebana basket, By Yamamoto Chikyuryōsai I (初代山本竹龍斎, 1868–1950)
  Please note that this lot is displayed and to be collected from Bonhams Melbourne office.
  63.5cm high
  signed 'Shōen Zouno' [笙園造之] to the base, with original tomobako, inscribed and signed 'Showa Shinbi (1930), Shōen Zou' [昭和辛未清和月，笙園製], with two seals possibly [山有武印] and [笙園]
• Notes:
  Yamamoto Shōen of Osaka, was one of the most renowned bamboo artists of his time, one of three such specialists in Japan specifically praised by the German design theorist Bruno Taut, who lived in Japan from 1933 to 1936; see Bruno Taut (Manfred Speidel ed.), Japans Kunst aus europäischen Augen gesehen (Japanese Art Seen Through Western Eyes), Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2011, p. 118, and Melissa Rinne, Masters of Bamboo: Artistic Lineage in the Lloyd Cotsen Japanese Basket Collection, San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, 2007, pp. 115.
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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