Two bamboo baskets


20th centuryThe smaller, a wall-vase of elongated pear-shape with openwork plaiting formed by crossing groups of four slender bamboo strips and terminating in a wrapped rim, signed Chiku[ho]sai, the larger of slender rectangular form in mutsume-ami and plain plaiting with arrow shafts to the four rounded corners and terminating in an elaborate rattan-wrapped rim bracketed by a tall loop handle, signed Chikuyosai, with interior bamboo insert.10 1/2 and 2 1/2in (26.5 and 54.6cm) high