A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA

EDO AND MEIJI, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Comprising: three bamboo and metal kiseru (pipe), one in a fabric pouch; a tooled leather tobacco pouch; a woven rattan kiseruzutsu (pipe case); another made of stag antler carved with an Immortal, attached to a wooden shoe-shaped tabako-ire (tobacco box); a third kiseruzutsu made of wood and attached to a burr tabako-ire; together with an inlaid bronze yatate (writing set), 21cm max. (9)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.