Lot Essay
The maker of the first tsuba is unrecorded but was probably a member of the Iyo Shoami school.
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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A copper tsuba and another
Edo Period (19th Century)
A mokkogata copper ishimeji tsuba, the undecorated plate pierced with inome, the raised rim inlaid in low relief with flowers in silver, signed Otsuriuken Tomitaka saku [made at the age of 80] and dated Bunka 2 [1805]; a broad oval shibuichi tsuba chiselled and pierced with dragons and tendrils, Namban work
2 11/16in. (6.9cm.) and 3 1/8in. (8cm.) (2)
Edo Period (19th Century)
A mokkogata copper ishimeji tsuba, the undecorated plate pierced with inome, the raised rim inlaid in low relief with flowers in silver, signed Otsuriuken Tomitaka saku [made at the age of 80] and dated Bunka 2 [1805]; a broad oval shibuichi tsuba chiselled and pierced with dragons and tendrils, Namban work
2 11/16in. (6.9cm.) and 3 1/8in. (8cm.) (2)
Special notice
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