Name: MINOURA CHIKUHO (1934 – 2010)
Brand: Butterfly II (Chocho)
Price: 12000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

MINOURA CHIKUHO (1934 – 2010)
Butterfly II (Chocho)
A flower arranging basket, of bamboo (madake), rattan and lacquer, using the kushime-ami technique
Signed to the underside in incised characters Chikuho zo (made by Chikuho), together with a fitted wood artist’s storage box (tomobako) signed and sealed Chikuho zo, and titled as above
15¹⁄₂ in. (39.6 cm.) high; 21¹⁄₄ in. (54 cm.) wide

Acquired directly from the artist through Tai Gallery, Santa Fe, 2003.

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For another basket by Minoura Chikuho on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), New York, go to:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/707008

For another in the collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, object no. 2006.3.831, go to:

http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:17923