Live Auction 6071Japanese Art & Design
A Bamboo Pipecase
Lot 115

A Bamboo Pipecase

SIGNED JIKAN GANBUN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed16 May 2012

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GBP 7,500

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A Bamboo Pipecase
Signed Jikan Ganbun, Edo Period (19th century)
The bamboo case with natural nodes, carved and inlaid in silver, brass and shakudo with ants crawling in and out of crevices, silver fittings
20.1cm. long

Specialist note

For the artist see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p.371-383.