A SOFT METAL AND BAMBOO PIPE

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A SOFT METAL AND BAMBOO PIPE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

The metal tip and bowl finished in shakudo and gold with a parrot perched on a flowering branch, the bird placed on the tip end of the pipe and the top of the vine on the bowl end, the cylindrical midsection of the pipe bamboo- 8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) long