A Sentoku Tsuba

EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY), SIGNED UMETADA MYOJU

Details

A Sentoku Tsuba
Edo period (17th-18th century), signed Umetada Myoju
Rounded square and inlaid with gourd leaves and vines in gold, silver and shakudo hirazogan; tang hole enlarged and plugged, traces of copper from mounting
2 7/8in. (7.1cm.) long

Provenance

Major E. Calthrop, London

Exhibited

Yamanaka and Co., London, "Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross", 1915.10.14--11.13 (collection of Major E. Calthrop)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, reprint of London, 1916 (Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976), no. 93.

Sold Sotheby's, London, 3 March, 1970, lot 246

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