EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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An Unusual Powderflask and Another
Edo Period (19th Century)
The flask of pressed cow horn, decorated with tessen [clematis] in dark brown and gold hiramaki-e, the rotating barrel and the neck of brass and the mouth collar of horn; and a flask of wood, covered with black lacquered leather, the mouth and cover of copper decorated with a mon in gold
8¾in. (22.2cm.) high (2)
Edo Period (19th Century)
The flask of pressed cow horn, decorated with tessen [clematis] in dark brown and gold hiramaki-e, the rotating barrel and the neck of brass and the mouth collar of horn; and a flask of wood, covered with black lacquered leather, the mouth and cover of copper decorated with a mon in gold
8¾in. (22.2cm.) high (2)
Literature
Michael Dean, Le Palais Sanada et l'Ecole Bunbu, La Maison Yokata et les armes a feu secretes du fief Matsushiro, Bulletin Association Franco-Japonaise, no. 63 (January 1999), p. 10, fig. 9.
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