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21TWO OGAWA AND TANAKA TSUBA: CHIKUZANKEN MOTOSADA AND KOSEKI TOSHIYOSHI
(FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY)
Nadekakugata, the sentoku guard with thickened lip is carved on both sides with ji resembling bark and applied with a large sentoku catfish, a shakudo and gold shrimp and a copper crab, signed Chikuzanken Motosada and with kao and on the reverse, Tosai sundai ni oite tetsu hitsu, height 8.9cm.; Nadekakugata, the iron guard with evenly thickened rim is applied with sentoku waves with silver and gold spray and molded with clouds in the sky above and applied in shakudo and gold with a figure of Jurojin with his stag, the reverse molded with clouds and applied in shakudo and gold with a crane in flight; the nakago-ana plugged with copper and gold sekigane, signed Koseki Toshityoshi and kao, height 8.0cm. (2)
(FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY)
Nadekakugata, the sentoku guard with thickened lip is carved on both sides with ji resembling bark and applied with a large sentoku catfish, a shakudo and gold shrimp and a copper crab, signed Chikuzanken Motosada and with kao and on the reverse, Tosai sundai ni oite tetsu hitsu, height 8.9cm.; Nadekakugata, the iron guard with evenly thickened rim is applied with sentoku waves with silver and gold spray and molded with clouds in the sky above and applied in shakudo and gold with a figure of Jurojin with his stag, the reverse molded with clouds and applied in shakudo and gold with a crane in flight; the nakago-ana plugged with copper and gold sekigane, signed Koseki Toshityoshi and kao, height 8.0cm. (2)