A PAIR OF MITO SCHOOL MENUKI

LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A PAIR OF MITO SCHOOL MENUKI
late edo period (19th century)
Of gold, formed and pierced as bird catchers, one carrying a pole and with a basket tied to his waist and the other with a bird caught on his pole
Width 16in. (3.7cm.) and 1.3/8in. (3.4cm.), thickness 5mm. each (2)

Exhibited

Mikimoto Hall, Mikimoto Ginza, Tokyo, 1980.3.14--23

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), no. 59.