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A carved 'Okame' pipe case, an inscribed bamboo backscratcher and a walrus ivory netsuke, Japan, Edo period

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June 4, 03:30 PM GMT

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600 - 800 EUR

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Description

the backscratcher inscribed with Ma-shi XX nyoi kai-sai Kō (rai) sen-shi saku "…source of great pleasure, made by Kō (rai) Sen-shi" (3)


Length of longest 44.5 cm, 17½ in.

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Pipe case: Zacke, Vienna, 26th July 024, lot 17.

Gratte-dos : Gregg Baker, London, 7th November 2005.