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MUROMACHI/EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1500/19TH CENTURY)
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A KAMAKURA TSUBA, A KASHIRA-GATA TSUBA AND FOUR OTHERS
Muromachi/Edo period (circa 1500/19th century)
A Kamakura tsuba of tachi-mokko shape, carved in low relief with cloves, plum blossoms, and jewels and pierced with flower forms and rings, with two forging flaws in the plate, 8.3cm.; an iron kashira-gata tsuba, a strand of the hair between the teeth inlaid in silver, 8.2cm.; a circular iron tsuba carved and inaid with Raiden beating his thunder drum on a cloud, signed Nakagawa Yoshiharu, with a kao, 6.9cm.; a well carved iron tsuba carved in the form of a gourd, 7.8cm.; an aoi-shaped tsuba carved and inlaid to represent the plates of a helmet,the back plate surmounted with a cartouche inscribed Hachiman dai bosatsu, 9.1cm.; and an otafuku-mokko shaped tsuba with four boar's eye piercings and inlaid with cherry blossoms in various metals, 8.4cm. (6)
Muromachi/Edo period (circa 1500/19th century)
A Kamakura tsuba of tachi-mokko shape, carved in low relief with cloves, plum blossoms, and jewels and pierced with flower forms and rings, with two forging flaws in the plate, 8.3cm.; an iron kashira-gata tsuba, a strand of the hair between the teeth inlaid in silver, 8.2cm.; a circular iron tsuba carved and inaid with Raiden beating his thunder drum on a cloud, signed Nakagawa Yoshiharu, with a kao, 6.9cm.; a well carved iron tsuba carved in the form of a gourd, 7.8cm.; an aoi-shaped tsuba carved and inlaid to represent the plates of a helmet,the back plate surmounted with a cartouche inscribed Hachiman dai bosatsu, 9.1cm.; and an otafuku-mokko shaped tsuba with four boar's eye piercings and inlaid with cherry blossoms in various metals, 8.4cm. (6)
Provenance
The second, C.P. Peak and E.J.L. Gardiner Collections
The third, C.P. Peak Collection
The third, C.P. Peak Collection
Special notice
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