14th Jun, 2024 10:00
Fine Japanese Art
75
KAJIWARA AYA: A HANAGAKO (FLOWER BASKET) WITH SPIRAL PATTERN
Sold for €7,800
including Buyer's Premium
By Kajiwara Aya (born 1941), signed Aya saku
Japan, 2004
Of compressed globular form, beautifully crafted in openwork with a spiral pattern around the walls, woven with madake (bamboo) and rattan in the maru-ami and kushime-rasenami techniques, and supported on a short foot. The underside incised with the artist signature AYA saku [made by Aya].
HEIGHT 21.3 cm
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear.
Provenance: TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Estate of Eleanor Koffler, acquired from the above in 2004. A copy of the original purchase receipt and invoice from TAI Gallery, dated 18 and 19 (respectively) August 2004, accompanies this lot. TAI Gallery was founded by Robert T. Coffland, a leading expert in Japanese bamboo arts in the West, who began sourcing works from contemporary masters in Japan. In 2014, the gallery was purchased by Margo Thoma, merged with her own gallery Eight Modern, and rebranded as TAI Modern. Together with Koichiro Okada, a renowned bamboo expert, they support bamboo art in the West by serving as an advisor to Western collectors and institutions, facilitating public demonstrations, and curating bamboo art exhibitions. Works by TAI Modern artists have been placed in some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, and many more. Eleanor Koffler was the co-author of the book ‘Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City’ and an avid collector of Western, Native American, and Asian art.
The wood storage box with hakogaki at the top reading ‘Rasen (spiral) patterned Hanakago’ to the exterior and signed Aya saku [made by Aya] with a red seal to the interior.
With a Japanese description of the artist’s biography.
Kajiwara Aya (born 1941) became the first woman to become a full member of the Japan Traditional Craft Arts Association in 2000 and started winning major awards. Her work is exhibited in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related bamboo hanakago by Kajiwara Aya, 17.8 cm tall, dated 1990, in the Asian Art Museum, object number 2006.3.481.
Auction comparison:
Compare a related woven bamboo and rattan basket by Kajiwara Aya, 33 cm tall, dated to 1995, at Christie’s, The Collection of Victoria, Lady de Rothschild, 9 December 2021, London, lot 146 (sold for GBP 12,500). Note the closely related signature and design of the base.
By Kajiwara Aya (born 1941), signed Aya saku
Japan, 2004
Of compressed globular form, beautifully crafted in openwork with a spiral pattern around the walls, woven with madake (bamboo) and rattan in the maru-ami and kushime-rasenami techniques, and supported on a short foot. The underside incised with the artist signature AYA saku [made by Aya].
HEIGHT 21.3 cm
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear.
Provenance: TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Estate of Eleanor Koffler, acquired from the above in 2004. A copy of the original purchase receipt and invoice from TAI Gallery, dated 18 and 19 (respectively) August 2004, accompanies this lot. TAI Gallery was founded by Robert T. Coffland, a leading expert in Japanese bamboo arts in the West, who began sourcing works from contemporary masters in Japan. In 2014, the gallery was purchased by Margo Thoma, merged with her own gallery Eight Modern, and rebranded as TAI Modern. Together with Koichiro Okada, a renowned bamboo expert, they support bamboo art in the West by serving as an advisor to Western collectors and institutions, facilitating public demonstrations, and curating bamboo art exhibitions. Works by TAI Modern artists have been placed in some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, and many more. Eleanor Koffler was the co-author of the book ‘Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City’ and an avid collector of Western, Native American, and Asian art.
The wood storage box with hakogaki at the top reading ‘Rasen (spiral) patterned Hanakago’ to the exterior and signed Aya saku [made by Aya] with a red seal to the interior.
With a Japanese description of the artist’s biography.
Kajiwara Aya (born 1941) became the first woman to become a full member of the Japan Traditional Craft Arts Association in 2000 and started winning major awards. Her work is exhibited in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related bamboo hanakago by Kajiwara Aya, 17.8 cm tall, dated 1990, in the Asian Art Museum, object number 2006.3.481.
Auction comparison:
Compare a related woven bamboo and rattan basket by Kajiwara Aya, 33 cm tall, dated to 1995, at Christie’s, The Collection of Victoria, Lady de Rothschild, 9 December 2021, London, lot 146 (sold for GBP 12,500). Note the closely related signature and design of the base.
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