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A SET OF FIVE FINE SILVER AND BAMBOO KISERU (PIPES)
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th
century
The first silver and bamboo, decorated below the bowl and around
the mouthpiece with an arare (hailstone) pattern and finished in a
gold wash; the second solid silver, carved on the stem with a bird
house suspended from a pine bough in kebori and katakiri-bori, the
pine cones and the roof of the bird house inlaid in gold and shakudo
hirazogan; the third silver and bamboo, decorated with water wheels
and peonies in shishiai-bori and kebori; the fourth silver and bamboo,
decorated below the bowl and on the mouthpiece with concentric
rings carved in relief; the fifth solid silver, carved on the stems with
geometric a patterns in shishiai-bori
In a fitted wood box with an inscription written by a former collector
praising the quality of these pipes
8 7/8in (22,5cm) long, the largest
US$2,000 - 3,000
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