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Yamaguchi Ryuun

“Sign of Wind” Basket

2002

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Yamaguchi Ryuun

“Sign of Wind” Basket

2002

Physical Qualities Bamboo and rattan, 10 1/8 × 21 1/4 in. (25.7 × 54 cm.)
Credit Line Given in Honor of Margaret Lucille Roulette, San Diego
Object Number 2017.435
Flattened spherical basket with central hourglass or vortex-shaped aperture; attached iron wall mount.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2017; Margaret Roulette, San Diego, by purchase 2003; Tai Gallery, Santa Fe
Michael Webb, “Bamboo’s Amazing Grace,” “Architecture + Design Magazine,” July 31, 2002 (https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/artnotebook-article-082002), no. 7, ill.

Inscribed: Signed on bottom

Artist

Yamaguchi Ryuun

1939–2000

Japanese, born 1940
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