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INLAID BAMBOO PIPECASE by IKKO
Signed Ikko, Edo Period (19th century)
A large bamboo pipecase depicting a Sambaso dancer inlaid in ivory, lacquer, aogai, wood and stained horn.
12in. (30.7 cm.)
Condition: very good. There is a crack to the bamboo and three small wood inlays are missing.
Ikko was prolific artist of the early to middle 19th century. He is considered one of the great artists of his time and excelled in his pipe cases and tonkotsu, as well as with netsuke. His use of multiple woods, ivory, jade, mother-of-pearl, and multiple other materials in combination in his compositions is paralleled, as is shown here in the tonkotsu and pipe case. (quoted from Joseph Kurstin and Gilles Lorin, The Peacock's Feather: Gentlemen's Jewelry of Old Japan, An Exhibition of Netsuke, Inro and Sagemono at the Morikami Museum in Conjunction with the 2007 International Netsuke Society Convention, p. 122, cat. no. 102).
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