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

細節

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

來源

Henry Charles Clifford Collection
G. H. Hodgson Collection

出版

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

展覽

Red Cross Exhibition, 1915

注意事項

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拍品專文

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.