A smoking set. Second half 19th century - image-1

Lot 766 Dα

A smoking set. Second half 19th century

Auction 1166 - overview Cologne
16.12.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 3.200 € - 3.500 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)

A smoking set. Second half 19th century

Including a tabakoire of blue-stained deer skin with an iron kanagu in shape of a puppy, the back with an plum blossom branch, signed Kazumasa, a large malachite bead for an ojime, a lacquer pipe case of musozutsu type with two sparrows and a bird table with rice ears in makie on a ground imitating metal in the style of Zeshin, the pipe of bamboo (split) with fittings of shakudo nanako and gold.
Length of the kiseruzutsu 23 cm

Provenance

Collection Edward Wrangham (1928-2009), Northumberland (coll. no. 2312)
Collection Jacques Carré (1927-2015), Kapellen, Belgium

Literature

Illustrated in: Max Rutherston, Kitsuengu From Jacques Carré and others, London 2018, cat. no. 14