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