Lot 111
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AN IRON TSUBA BY SEIRYUKEN EIJU, A KAGA ZOGAN TSUBA, A RARE NANBAN TSUBA AND TWO OTHERS
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AN IRON TSUBA BY SEIRYUKEN EIJU, A KAGA ZOGAN TSUBA, A RARE NANBAN TSUBA AND TWO OTHERS

MUROMACHI/MOMOYAMA/EDO PERIOD (15TH/19TH CENTURY)

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AN IRON TSUBA BY SEIRYUKEN EIJU, A KAGA ZOGAN TSUBA, A RARE NANBAN TSUBA AND TWO OTHERS
Muromachi/Momoyama/Edo period (15th/19th century)
The first finely finished and decorated with forms of the character kotobuki carved and pierced into the oval plate, signed Seiryuken Eiju, 7.1cm.; a circular iron Kaga zogan tsuba decorated with vines in gilt brass and copper, some inlay on the edge missing, 7.9cm.; a Heianjo iron tsuba, inlaid with mon and stylised vines, 8.1cm.; a rare rounded square iron nanban tsuba, carved into the plate on both sides in shishiai-bori with a design of Cupid with a bow and arrows, a bird and poppies, based on a European leather design, 8.85cm.; and a circular Yoshiro brass inlay tsuba, pierced and inlaid in the plate with openings, surrounded by stylised vines, the seppadai inlaid with copper on one side of the plate, 8.75cm. (5)
Provenance
The first, Henry Charles Clifford Collection
Literature
The first, Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 1290, pl. CLIX
Exhibited
The first, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Seiryuken Eiju worked in Osaka and was of the school of Tetsuya Naofusa. He worked around the beginning of the 19th century.
Another well-known tsuba with the design of European leatherwork was in the Raphael collection and exhibited in the Red Cross exhibition, no. 1286, illustrated on plate CLXIII.

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