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Basketry vase with metal insert used for nageire style Ikebana flower arrangement. Bamboo basket has a round lower half with bulging sides, long narrow neck, slightly flaring at the rim, with ring shaped foot. Bamboo has been stained reddish-brown and there is gray paint in the crevices to give it an antique look. The basket has been varnished. The bottom has split bamboo start made of radiating stakes which extend up the sides of the basket. Narrown bamboo weavers in a plain weave circle the bottom. Wider bamboo strips have been twisted to form a foot which is attached to the base with bamboo weavers. Border at the base twined with very narrow bamboo weavers. The bulging sides are woven with stakes and four sets of twined weavers in an open weave with supplementary weavers which wrap around the stakes and weavers in columns to create an overall repeating V-shape design. Above the bulging section is another band which matches the one at the base. At the front there are three rows of twill weaving and the neck consists of plain woven bamboo. Another twined band similar to the other border bands finishes the basket just under the rim. The rim flattens out and extends inward and is braided from the stakes. The U-shaped handle has five strips of bamboo wrapped with another strip of bamboo and is woven into the sides of the basket. On the bottom, pressed into vinyl tape is the donor's name "Uno". The metal insert in the shape of a cup is painted brown. A kenzan needle flower holder is adhered to the bottom. It has metal prongs and a green plastic base. The insert is held in place with a piece of wood attached to the cup bottom and extending to the interior bottom of the basket. The basket is made in Japan.

1997.030.201