Lot Essay
This is a very rare example of this artist's work. Ameyatsu lived in Kaga in the early Edo period and his technique is typical of Kaga workmanship of this period. Signed pieces from Kaga are very unusual.
Details
A KAGA TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1675), SIGNED AMEYATSU
The round shakudo polished plate with large cucumber form apertures on both sides and with a slightly rounded rim is decorated in gold inlay with arrowroot crests (kuzu mon) set against scrolling foliage. One of the shakudo sekigane is now missing--height 10.5cm., width 8.2cm., thickness 6mm.
Wood storage box.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1675), SIGNED AMEYATSU
The round shakudo polished plate with large cucumber form apertures on both sides and with a slightly rounded rim is decorated in gold inlay with arrowroot crests (kuzu mon) set against scrolling foliage. One of the shakudo sekigane is now missing--height 10.5cm., width 8.2cm., thickness 6mm.
Wood storage box.
Provenance
C. P. Peak
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 502.
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 502.
Literature
Joly (1916), pl. CXII, p. 122.