posted on January 31, 2006 08:32:32 AM new
I've tried Gotheborg without much success and search Google has been pretty much a bomb. I've also emailed various Japanese antique shops and have not received an answer. Maybe someone here can point me in another direction. Through Gotheborg I did learn it is probably a Kiseru (Japanese tobacco pipe) set, but I'm afraid that's not enough information. I was, however, pleased to learn it is not an opium pipe. My bf is still teasing me because he thinks it is. I know the decoration is the 16-petalled chrysanthemum, crest of the Japanese imperial family.
Anyone know where I can go next? I've spent three days on this already and came here last.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on January 31, 2006 09:22:09 AM new
Look up Tobako bon or tobakobon in Google - refers to both the whole set of smoking impliments and specifically the deep trays used to hold it all.
posted on January 31, 2006 09:34:14 AM new
pixiamom
Did that. The problem is, the tray is not deep and the set doesn't resemble any of the tobako bons I looked at. I'm thinking maybe this item was for the use of house guests.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on January 31, 2006 10:53:09 AM new
If you look at some of those old Japanese woodblock prints of men and women smoking a pipe in the Gay quarter in the Meiji period,you see similar pipes.
ask the folks at artelino.com.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on February 1, 2006 09:24:46 AM new
Cheryl
I'm no help with what this is but wanted to comment on the "came here last" statement.
I always try to read the "What is this??" type post 1st, as sometimes I know and sometimes I learn. It's what got me hooked on Vendio. So come here 1st next time!! It can be a real time saver.
