Lot Essay
This powerful, expressive dragon is finished in heavy silver nunome and is probably the work of the first master.
UNSIGNED, EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)
Details
An iron Shimizu Jingo Tsuba
Unsigned, early Edo period (17th century)
The mokkogata tsuchime-ji plate decorated with a rain dragon in shallow nikubori and silver zogan, the reverse with a stylised vajra, rounded mimi, with a wood box
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), thickness 4.5mm.
Unsigned, early Edo period (17th century)
The mokkogata tsuchime-ji plate decorated with a rain dragon in shallow nikubori and silver zogan, the reverse with a stylised vajra, rounded mimi, with a wood box
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), thickness 4.5mm.
Provenance
W W Winkworth
John Harding
John Harding
Literature
Lundgren Collection, no. 33