Three tabako-ire (tobacco pouches) with kiseruzutsu (pipe cases), two with kiseru (pipes)


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th centuryThe first an en-suite tooled Dutch-style leather tobacco pouch and pipe case decorated with fruiting grape vines and floral crests in gilt, the shakudo pouch clasp with a monkey seated on a tree stump in iroe-takazogan, the pipe case applied with a cloisonné-enamel and gilt-metal fitting with coiling vines supporting a suspension ring, fitted with a large stag-horn ojime pierced with a landscape and a stag-horn manju netsuke with a central roundel of a landscape surrounded by pierce-carved plum blossoms, the underside carved as a chrysanthemum blossom, the brass pipe decorated with the immortal poets in katakiri-bori, the mouthpiece silver; the second, a tooled Dutch-style leather tobacco pouch decorated with stylized blossoms and gilt horizontal bands of blue pigment, the clasp designed as a flower basket of camellias in copper and gold takazogan, the pipe case of woven ratan with a gilt-metal collar, with an impressed illegible gourd-shaped seal, fitted with a red-lacquer bead ojime carved with waves and inlaid with mother-of-pearl dots of foam; a textured leather tobacco pouch with a silver and shibichi clasp formed as Daitoku in a rickshaw being pulled by a rat, the wheel free-moving, the back plate carved with a gate and lantern in kebori, the dark hardwood pipecase fitted with a bone collar and containing a silver and bamboo pipe decorated with geometric and floral patterns in gold hirazogan (3) 10 5/8in (27cm) long, the largest