Project Description
Large Inlaid Cypress Wood Pipe Case or Brush-holder, by Hasegawa Ikko
Inlaid with a snake, rock and sasa (bamboo grass), the himotoshi an applied stag antler slug. Inlays are of ebony, possibly boxwood, rosewood and persimmon, as well as shell and stag antler, some stained
Signed: Ikko. Circa 1820
Length: 25cm
Provenance:
Virginia and Susan Atchley, LA, sold by order of the latter’s executors
Literature:
NKSJ, 9/3, illustrated on the cover
V. Atchley & N. Davey, The Virginia Atchley Collection …, p. 323, no. S72
MR1032
