Project Description
Stained Ivory Musozutsu Ensemble
Pipe case: carved with a meticulous repeat pattern of waves. Unsigned. 22 cm
Ojime: copper bead with applied gold and shakudo pine and bamboo, signed: Ittetsu saku, with a date equivalent to 1864. 1.7 cm
Pouch: Worn leather with stamped design of a hirsute creature on a branch
Maekanagu: Ascetic by a rock in gold, copper and shakudo, signed Yoshinobu, silver gilt backplate with lotus on water
Pipe: Gold fittings, engraved with kiku over repeat patterns; stem of bamboo, unsigned
Provenance:
E.A. Wrangham, Alnwick (no. 2302)
Information:
The kanamono is by Nagahama Yoshinobu, pupil of Toshiyoshi and Tanaka Kiyotoshi
MR2015