JAPANESE BASKETS AND SCULPTURE IN THE COTSEN COLLECTION

Flower Basket, Ruminations, approx. 1998
Noguchi Ranposai (b. 1923)
Kansai region: active in Kyoto
Bamboo (madake) and rattan
Selected techniques: thousand line construction, chrysanthemum base plaiting
H. 6 1/2 in x Diam. 15 in.
Lloyd Cotsen Japanese Bamboo Basket Collection, 2006.3.506 (B-1146); catalogue no. 46
Photograph by Kaz Tsuruta.

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