A domed square twined-handle bamboo basket


By Suemura Shobun (1917-2000), Showa (1926-1989) or Heisei (1989-) era, early-mid 20th centuryWoven in free-style square plaiting, knotting and wrapping, with a removable otoshi (water container) made from a lacquered section of bamboo, signed on the base Shobun; with a tomobako wooden storage box inscribed on the cover Hobichiku Sozen hanakago (hobi bamboo flower basket in the shape designed by Hisada Sozen), signed inside the cover Suemura Shobun saku with two seals, one reading Shobun; together with a leaflet from the artist's 35th exhibition. 39.5cm (15½in) high, incl. handle. (3).
|Suemura Shobun, a native of Osaka, trained under Yamamato Chikuyusai I (1868-1945) from 1936, and achieved independent status in 1941. He began showing his work at the Nitten and other exhibitions in 1951. (1) super scriptNotes:1. A+C VWG, Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, 1850-2015, n.p. [Catalogue of the Naej Collection], p.202.