Three Japanese Smoking Articles

19TH-20TH CENTURY

comprising a stag horn pipe case carved with mythical beasts; a brown, black and gold lacquer pipe case together with a circular netsuke in the form of a frog on top of a coiled snake; and a carved wood smoking set with a pipe, decorated with a tiger besides bamboo, together with a
tobacco box decorated with crashing waves.

Average length 8 1/2 in., 21.5 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

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Annie Wu

Senior Vice President, Head of Department, Asian Art

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.