TWO JAPANESE BAMBOO SUMITORI (CHARCOAL BASKETS)

TWO JAPANESE BAMBOO SUMITORI (CHARCOAL BASKETS)
MEIJI OR TAISHO, 20TH CENTURY

The Chinese-style baskets for the sencha tea ceremony, one with a cross-shaped base and a wide circular mouth, the other with a hexagonal body and raised on short feet, the bamboo strips woven in a variety of techniques to produces diverse patterns, 25cm and 22.5cm respectively; each with a tomobako wood box. (4)

Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset, purchased in Japan.