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A KYOTO SCHOOL TSUBA
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $605
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $1,000 - $1,500

Sale Information

Sale 7524
Japanese Swords & Sword Fittings from col Dr Walter Ames
22 October 1992
New York, Park Avenue





Lot Description

A KYOTO SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1650)

The round iron plate is carved with an openwork design of a band of pine-river-diamond crests (matsukawabishi mon) in a circle between the rim and the central area. There are delicate iron bones in the edge--height and width 7.5cm., thickness 4.0mm.

Provenance

Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 167

Lot Notes

This family crest was well known in the Muromachi period as the mon of the Ashikaga family. In the early Edo period (circa 1650) it was used by a number of lesser daimyo families.