Japanese bamboo flower basket, by Kosuge Kogetsu (Hounsai, born 1932), circa 1970-80, the slender body constructed from bamboo (madake and young nemagari dake) and rattan, employing the ‘thousand-line’ construction and embroidered plaiting, with a circular bamboo base signed Kogetsu-saku, Provenance: The Carmen M. and Allen D. Christensen Collection, Atherton, CA; NB: a similar basket published in Melissa M. Rinne, ”Masters of Bamboo” (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2007), page 77, plate 35. 19.75 inches