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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY),
Details
Two Pipecases and Tobacco Pouches, six Tobacco Containers with Netsuke and two Metal Pouch Clasps**,
Edo period (19th century),
comprising a lacquer pipecase modelled as a section of bamboo in red and black containing a silvered-brass and bamboo pipe carved with a tiger and dragon and fitted with a hardstone ojime and a brocade tobacco pouch with a soft-metal clasp cast as Ebisu; a woven-rattan pipecase containing a bronze pipe and fitted with a lacquer ojime and a brocade pouch with a soft-metal clasp of chickens; a rattan tobacco box fitted with a glass ojime and a wood burl netsuke; a wood mokugyo tobacco box fitted with a fruit nut ojime and netsuke; a root wood tobacco box with ivory covers fitted with a hardstone ojime and a wood netsuke carved as a woven bamboo box; a printed leather tobacco pouch fitted with a coin ojime and a stag horn netsuke of a cicada; a leather tobacco pouch resembling a carpenter's tool fitted with a metal blade and a netsuke of a Hyottoko mask; a leather tobacco pouch fitted with a kagamibuta netsuke with horses in relief on the metal disc; two soft-metal pouch clasps with Benten and a Nio arm wrestling and a kabuki actor, the second with signature Shumin
the longest 8½in. (21.6cm.) long (9)
Edo period (19th century),
comprising a lacquer pipecase modelled as a section of bamboo in red and black containing a silvered-brass and bamboo pipe carved with a tiger and dragon and fitted with a hardstone ojime and a brocade tobacco pouch with a soft-metal clasp cast as Ebisu; a woven-rattan pipecase containing a bronze pipe and fitted with a lacquer ojime and a brocade pouch with a soft-metal clasp of chickens; a rattan tobacco box fitted with a glass ojime and a wood burl netsuke; a wood mokugyo tobacco box fitted with a fruit nut ojime and netsuke; a root wood tobacco box with ivory covers fitted with a hardstone ojime and a wood netsuke carved as a woven bamboo box; a printed leather tobacco pouch fitted with a coin ojime and a stag horn netsuke of a cicada; a leather tobacco pouch resembling a carpenter's tool fitted with a metal blade and a netsuke of a Hyottoko mask; a leather tobacco pouch fitted with a kagamibuta netsuke with horses in relief on the metal disc; two soft-metal pouch clasps with Benten and a Nio arm wrestling and a kabuki actor, the second with signature Shumin
the longest 8½in. (21.6cm.) long (9)