Deer Antler Otoshizutsu Pipe Case by Ryūmin (Tokyo, fl. 1855-87)
Carved with a rat at the top, the body with a dilapidated lath and plaster wall
Signed.Tokyo. Circa 1870
20.5 cm
The composition (without the detail of the wall) is the same as a worn unsigned pipe case illusrtated in Paul Moss’s 3 volume book on Kokusai and stag antler carvers, vol. III, no. 528
MR5399
