Meiji period (1868-1912), tobacco pouch made from leather with purple fabric ground decorated with fish and crayfish or shrimp swimming amidst water plants, metal fitting closure with irises, circular kagamibuta with ivory bowl bearing a shibuichi plate cast and inlaid with a pair of ducks swimming under flowers.

10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

From the Estate Of Anne Morningstar Huberth, Southern Pines

Photograph of the consignor's great grandmother and grandmother at their home in Japan, and a photograph of her great grandfather produced by the Hastings studio in Boston, Massachusetts. The photographs are not included in this lot.

Some wear and losses to edges of leather pouch; some losses to enamels on netsuke.