Project Description
Tsuishu Lacquer Muso-zutsu Pipe Case, by Baiun
Carved with a Chinese style mountainous landscape dotted with shrines and temples, the darker lacquer revealed ground incised with stylised waves. Gold mount
Signed: Baiun. Circa 1900
22cm
Another pipecase by the artist was in the Raymond Bushell collection, illustrated in his article on pipe cases in Arts of Asia, November-December 1980, no. 24
Provenance:
Virginia and Susan Atchley, LA, sold by order of the latter’s executors
Literature:
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, 2006, p. 296, no. S25
MR770