JAPANESE BASKETS AND SCULPTURE IN THE COTSEN COLLECTION

Fruit Basket, Sound of the Ocean, 1988
By Higashi Takesonosai (1915-2003)
Kansai region: active in Kyoto
Bamboo (madake) and rattan
Selected techniques: unfolding twill plaiting (hiraki ajiro ami),
thousand line construction, unfolding twill base
H. 7 1/4 in x Diam. 20 1/4 in.
Lloyd Cotsen Japanese Bamboo Basket Collection, 2006.3.709.; catalogue no. 14

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