EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节

TWO KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASES]
Edo/Meiji period (19th century)
A stagshorn pipecase carved in relief with a peasant resting on a verandah while a child plays with a daisy at his feet; rice stooks and a mountain in the background, the himotoshi in the form of a coiled dragon; the stopper inscribed Yuiraku..., signed towards the base in incised characters Ryumin with a seal Isshosai Hakumin no in (Asakusa, Edo); and an ivory pipecase carved in relief with three Chinese in a mountainous landscape by a stream, a rustic hut in the background occupied by another Chinese, on the reverse a figure tending a garden, the himotoshi formed by a pine-tree in high relief, unsigned
9in. (23cm.) and 8½in. (21.5cm.) long respectively (2)

来源

The second, Gilbertson and Henry Charles Clifford Collections

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拍品专文

Isshinsai Hakumin is believed to have been born in 1842, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), vol. 1, p. 436.