Catalogue of the collections of the American Art Association to be absolutely sold by auction to settle the estate of the late RAustin Robertson; part first . i-akawa. The pouch ornament is of carvedivory, and illustrates various early Chinese historic sub-jects. The netsuke is decorated with carved ivory ele-phant and visitors, executed by Nobu-yoshi; 18th cen-tury. This set is one of the finest specimens of carvedivory work. 342 POUCHES 1957 Pouch and Pipe-case. Made of the skin called shibo-inden. The gold clasp attached to the pouch has a designof the well-known subject called The Three Wi
Catalogue of the collections of the American Art Association to be absolutely sold by auction to settle the estate of the late RAustin Robertson; part first . i-akawa. The pouch ornament is of carvedivory, and illustrates various early Chinese historic sub-jects. The netsuke is decorated with carved ivory ele-phant and visitors, executed by Nobu-yoshi; 18th cen-tury. This set is one of the finest specimens of carvedivory work. 342 POUCHES 1957 Pouch and Pipe-case. Made of the skin called shibo-inden. The gold clasp attached to the pouch has a designof the well-known subject called The Three Wine-Tasters around the Sake Jar, repre-senting Buddha, Laotze and Confucius,typifying the three creeds, Buddhism,Taouism and Confucianism; the ideabeing that although these creeds differ,they are the result of a common inspira-tion. The back plate in gold has a land-scape design exquisitely engraved inflat finish. These clasps are signed withseal-mark, and probably are the workof the middle of 18th century. Thenetsuke has an incrustation of a dragoncarved in mother-of-pearl on coral. Theojime, or slide, has a design of a carvedThe metal-work ought to be. 1957dragon on a coral-ball. closely inspected. 1958 Pouch and Pipe-ease. Made of an antique and valu-able skin, called yodoyakawa. The name yodoya origin-ated from an amateur collector, Yodoya Koan, who livedin Yedo and used to make special collections of skinsas precious treasures. Thissort is said to be quite rareand valuable. The gold claspattached to the pouch repre-sents the famous Buddhistsubject called Ziu-roku-rakau, or sixteen disciples,mostly very thin and scan-tily clad, in various gold and silver back-plate has their names en-graved with great perfec-tion. By Teiko-kei-min, andsigned ; 18th century. Thegold button, or netsuke, is mounted on an ivory ring ofdragon form, which ring is profusely carved, and has theimage ofcShakamuni or Buddha, the founder of Buddhism,chased and carved with marvelous skill.
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