THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A SOFT METAL PIPE AND TOBACCO POUCH SET MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), PIPE SIGNED MASATSUNE The thick pipe composed of soft metal tip and bowl ends joined by a middle cylinder of bamboo, each end of shibuichi with details of gilt and silver worked in takazogan with a lakeside shrine complex nestled in the hills and under the moon, the pipe enclosed in a leather case which attaches to a matching leather pouch fitted with a large rectangular ivory clasp carved in low relief with a landscape and applied with a gilt and shakudo oxherd and ox, the underside of the plaque engraved with a rake and basket of flowers and signed Shigeyuki with kakihan , the pouch suspended from three hinged shakudo , gilt and copper plaques of seaside huts on the face and of carved ivory plaques applied with a gilt, copper and shakudo bird on the reverse, these in turn suspended from a large ivory kagamibuto netsuke carved on the reverse with a landscape and on the edges with fretwork and fitted with a rectangular shakudo and gilt landscape within a gilt iron narrow border- pipe 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) long, pouch suspended from netsuke 8 7/8 in. (22.8 cm.) (2)
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A SOFT METAL PIPE AND TOBACCO POUCH SET MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), PIPE SIGNED MASATSUNE The thick pipe composed of soft metal tip and bowl ends joined by a middle cylinder of bamboo, each end of shibuichi with details of gilt and silver worked in takazogan with a lakeside shrine complex nestled in the hills and under the moon, the pipe enclosed in a leather case which attaches to a matching leather pouch fitted with a large rectangular ivory clasp carved in low relief with a landscape and applied with a gilt and shakudo oxherd and ox, the underside of the plaque engraved with a rake and basket of flowers and signed Shigeyuki with kakihan , the pouch suspended from three hinged shakudo , gilt and copper plaques of seaside huts on the face and of carved ivory plaques applied with a gilt, copper and shakudo bird on the reverse, these in turn suspended from a large ivory kagamibuto netsuke carved on the reverse with a landscape and on the edges with fretwork and fitted with a rectangular shakudo and gilt landscape within a gilt iron narrow border- pipe 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) long, pouch suspended from netsuke 8 7/8 in. (22.8 cm.) (2)
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