A Beautiful hanging wall basket in candy-colored (Phoenix Tail) bamboo by Ueda Shounsai enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 16 x 13.5 x 19.5 cm (6-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 8 inches) and is in excellent condition, signed on back beneath the hanging loop.
Ueda Shounsai (1897–1990) was an apprentice to Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877-1937), one of the most important bamboo artists working in the Osaka Prefecture. Work by him is held in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum among others.
