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SEVEN NARA AND VARIOUS SCHOOL SOFT METAL TSUBA
19TH CENTURY
Dark sentoku nadekakugata with shakudo fukurin applied in shakudo, sentoku and copper with geese in descending flight over drying nets and rushes; oval shakudo with a figure of an old man dancing with a fishing pole beneath a pine; shiiremono sentoku molded with lotus leaves; oval shibuichi with a carved and molded figure of a Chinese sage highlighted in gold and shibuichi; nadekakugata shibuichi molded and carved with a tiger beneath katakiribori bamboo signed Masaio; nadekakugata sentoku carved katakiriboti with figures of Shoki and oni; oval sentoku carved in sunken relief with figures of Ebisu, Daikoku and Jurojin reading a scrpoll, the reverse carved with a pine, signed Tsuneshige; heights 7.1, 7.1, 6.9, 6.7, 6.8, 6.6, 7.1 cm. (7)
19TH CENTURY
Dark sentoku nadekakugata with shakudo fukurin applied in shakudo, sentoku and copper with geese in descending flight over drying nets and rushes; oval shakudo with a figure of an old man dancing with a fishing pole beneath a pine; shiiremono sentoku molded with lotus leaves; oval shibuichi with a carved and molded figure of a Chinese sage highlighted in gold and shibuichi; nadekakugata shibuichi molded and carved with a tiger beneath katakiribori bamboo signed Masaio; nadekakugata sentoku carved katakiriboti with figures of Shoki and oni; oval sentoku carved in sunken relief with figures of Ebisu, Daikoku and Jurojin reading a scrpoll, the reverse carved with a pine, signed Tsuneshige; heights 7.1, 7.1, 6.9, 6.7, 6.8, 6.6, 7.1 cm. (7)