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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
A TSUBA WITH A GASSAN SEAL, A TSUBA WITH A YASUCHIKA SEAL AND TWO OTHERS
Edo period (19th century)
An oval iron tsuba inlaid on the face with a fox with his eyes on a melon on a vine, the reverse with an open garden gate, a seal, Gassan, inscribed on the reverse, 7.8cm.; an oval shakudo tsuba inlaid with a raised seal form, on which are a hare and gold inlaid fern shoots, beneath the inlaid silver moon, on the reverse is a similarly raised seal, with the characters Yasuchika, 7.4cm.; a small shibuichi tsuba carved with Taira no Tadamori capturing the oil thief, with signature Somin with a kao, 6.7cm.; and a good small shakudo tsuba carved and inlaid in various metals with a Chinese man and woman standing at a table under a pine tree in a garden, signed Hamano Noriyuki with a kao, 6.2cm. (4)
Edo period (19th century)
An oval iron tsuba inlaid on the face with a fox with his eyes on a melon on a vine, the reverse with an open garden gate, a seal, Gassan, inscribed on the reverse, 7.8cm.; an oval shakudo tsuba inlaid with a raised seal form, on which are a hare and gold inlaid fern shoots, beneath the inlaid silver moon, on the reverse is a similarly raised seal, with the characters Yasuchika, 7.4cm.; a small shibuichi tsuba carved with Taira no Tadamori capturing the oil thief, with signature Somin with a kao, 6.7cm.; and a good small shakudo tsuba carved and inlaid in various metals with a Chinese man and woman standing at a table under a pine tree in a garden, signed Hamano Noriyuki with a kao, 6.2cm. (4)
Provenance
The first and second, C.P. Peak Collection
Literature
The third, Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 725 and Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton, Esq. (London, 1912), no. 1727
Exhibited
The third, Red Cross exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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