Tobacco pouch
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Leather, Paint, Silver
Measurements
150 mm (Length)90 mm (W)74 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1340115
Summary
Japanese leather tobacco pouch, embossed and painted red and gold showing flowers and butterflies with a silver mount of a rat to the front. Also attached by silver chains is a pipe pouch and a large ivory button, engraved with a quail on each side.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.