1930s Handwoven Japanese Bamboo Fruit Basket

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Up for sale is an Vintage Japanese rustic style handwoven square bamboo basket for holding fruits, a unique sample of … Read more Up for sale is an Vintage Japanese rustic style handwoven square bamboo basket for holding fruits, a unique sample of Japanese bamboo weaving art*, dark brown color with some reddish hue, overall mellow patina, decent condition with a few breaks/losses on the strips and stains commensurate with the age and use, early 20th century
Private Upper East Side Manhattan collection
10 3/4in. wide, 10 3/4 in. deep, 4 3/4 in. tall

*Traditional Japanese bamboo (weaving) art - Bamboo combines lightness, strength, and flexibility with natural beauty. In Japan, it is used to make buildings, rope, fences, furniture, animal traps, arrows, fishing rods, farming tools, kitchen implements, musical instruments, religious articles, cloth, paper, baskets, boxes and, of course, art. The Japanese people have been making baskets out of bamboo for thousands of years, however, it was the flowering of the tea ceremony in Japanese culture after the 15th century that led to a demand for finely made bamboo tea articles and elaborate Chinese-style flower arranging vessels. A pool of talented bamboo artisans developed to meet this demand. The mid-19th century saw the first appearance of ambitious, artist-signed baskets and the development of an original Japanese style. These early bamboo artists excelled at both traditional formal Chinese-style baskets and the wabi-sabi Japanese aesthetic, which embraces imperfection, simplicity and irregularity. This period established the technical and philosophical standards for bamboo artists to come. See less