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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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TWO TONKOTSU [TOBACCO BOX] AND A KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]
Edo Period (19th Century)
The first, a boxwood tonkotsu carved in low-relief as a fish basket, with attached netsuke of a fugu fish and a wood ojime of a shell, signed Kazuo; the second set with a muso-zutsu form pipecase with black lacquer ground decorated in lacquer and ivory inlays of cranes amongst reeds, ivory ojime of a hare, attached wood tonkotsu, carved in low-relief and inlaid with ivory and mother of pearl depicting a crane in flight above flowers, a mother of pearl tanzaku with signature Teizan
7cm. and 7.5cm. high (2)
Edo Period (19th Century)
The first, a boxwood tonkotsu carved in low-relief as a fish basket, with attached netsuke of a fugu fish and a wood ojime of a shell, signed Kazuo; the second set with a muso-zutsu form pipecase with black lacquer ground decorated in lacquer and ivory inlays of cranes amongst reeds, ivory ojime of a hare, attached wood tonkotsu, carved in low-relief and inlaid with ivory and mother of pearl depicting a crane in flight above flowers, a mother of pearl tanzaku with signature Teizan
7cm. and 7.5cm. high (2)