A wood and bamboo pipe case By Gyokuho, Edo period (19th century)
Lot 3262
A wood and bamboo pipe case By Gyokuho, Edo period (19th century)
Sold for US$ 3,125 inc. premium
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Lot Details
A wood and bamboo pipe case
By Gyokuho, Edo period (19th century)
Constructed of black persimmon and bamboo joined together by horizontal wrappings of cane, the muso zutsu pipe case decorated with a deerskin gunpowder bag and maple leaves in iroe takamakie and e-nashiji, metal rim, signed Gyokuho and sealed Gyoku
8 5/8in (21.8cm) long

Footnotes

  • Provenance: Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
    Previously sold Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, 21 September, 1991, lot 1692.

    Published: Bushell, Raymond. Kiseruzutsu: the Japanese Pipecase in Arts of Asia, 10.6, 1980, no. 51.
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