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10 Japanese Scholar\'s Objects
Estimate: $1,200-$1,400
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Asian Works of Art Online
Location
Chicago
Size
Length of longest 9 in, 22.9 cm.
Description

10 Japanese Scholar's Objects

Late 19th-20th Century

comprising a mixed-metal letter opener with the handle cast with owls on tree branches; a mixed-metal letter opener handle cast to show a figure climbing onto a big carp; a mixed-metal pen holder cast with butterfly, frog, bee and spider; a small shakudo bronze ink pot; a bronze writing set, yatate; a shakudo bronze holder with a small matching knife; a brass set of chopsticks and knife; one carved wood holder decorated with a dragon, together with a wallnut netsuke; a carved wood tobacco box in the shape of a male's head; a bronze smoking pipe set with a carved wood tobacco box.

Length of longest 9 in, 22.9 cm.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fry, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, thence by descent

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