SIGNED RYUMIN AND OMIN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

AN IVORY KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]
Signed Ryumin and Omin, Edo Period (19th Century)
Applied in gilt with the aged couple Jo and Uba beneath a pine tree carved in ivory relief, a gilt crane flying down from above; signed on a gilt plaque Ryumin with a kao and in incised and stained characters on the ivory Omin, also with a kao
8½in. (21.5cm.) long

Provenance

Henry Charles Clifford Collection
G. H. Hodgson Collection

Literature

Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 13, pl. CLXVII

Exhibited

Red Cross Exhibition, 1915

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The metalworker Serizawa Ryumin (b. 1837) is best known as a maker of clasps for tobacco pouches, while the signature of Ichirinsai Omin is recorded on an ivory tonkotsu in the Walters Art Gallery. See E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), pp. 205 and 216.

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