Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th century Each of senryu-zutsu type, the first carved as a bearded figure with an impossibly long nose curling downward at the tip, the eyes and facial hair stained dark, the copper and bamboo pipe decorated with a heron perched on a willow tree beneath a full moon in silver and gold hirazogan and katakiri-bori , the bowl and mouthpiece gilt, signed Yasunaga ; the second an Asakusa-style case carved as an ape, the corona of the stag horn utilized to resemble the ape's hair, the eyes inlaid in dark horn, the silver pipe carved with flowers and vines in kebori 8in (20.3cm) high, the largest
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th century Each of senryu-zutsu type, the first carved as a bearded figure with an impossibly long nose curling downward at the tip, the eyes and facial hair stained dark, the copper and bamboo pipe decorated with a heron perched on a willow tree beneath a full moon in silver and gold hirazogan and katakiri-bori , the bowl and mouthpiece gilt, signed Yasunaga ; the second an Asakusa-style case carved as an ape, the corona of the stag horn utilized to resemble the ape's hair, the eyes inlaid in dark horn, the silver pipe carved with flowers and vines in kebori 8in (20.3cm) high, the largest
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