A HIKONE-BORI TSUBA AND FIVE OTHERS
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A HIKONE-BORI TSUBA AND FIVE OTHERS

EDO PERIOD (17TH/19TH CENTURY)

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A HIKONE-BORI TSUBA AND FIVE OTHERS
Edo period (17th/19th century)
A fine hikone-bori tsuba, carved in high relief in the unpierced plate and inlaid in silver, copper and two colours of gold with a Chinese emperor in a carriage on a bridge together with three attendants, stopping to speak with a weeping girl beside a waterfall, three more attendants on the reverse and temples amongst mountains in the distance, school of Soten, 8.5cm.; a Hiragiya school tsuba, carved and pierced in high relief with Benkei, challenging Ushiwaka (the young Yoshitsune) on the Gojo bridge in Kyoto, 8.7cm.; a rare circular Nanban tsuba in a truncated conical shape, the face decorated on the sloping side with massed chidori in silver nunome-zogan, the rest of the surfaces, front and back, with waves in the same technique, 8.8cm.; a smaller oval tsuba, the plate carved and pierced in relief with a figure of a foreigner with a trumpet to his lips and a quiver full of arrows at his back with a lady at his side and a shishi at their feet in a wooded landscape, signed Tetsugendo Shoraku, with a gold kao, died in the 9th year of An'ei [1780], 7.2cm.; a finely worked tsuba of charming design, carved and pierced with a horse seated beside a stream, signed Hiromasa, with a kakihan seal, 7.1cm.; and an oval iron tsuba carved and pierced in the web with massed chrysanthemum flowers and leaves, the edge decorated with star forms amid small clouds in gold nunome-zogan, signed Bushu no ju Masanaga, 7.1cm. (6)
來源
The first, G.H. Naunton Collection
The third and fourth, W.L. Behrens Collection
出版
The first, Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton, Esq. (London, 1912), no. 523, pl. XXIV.
The third, Henri L. Joly, W. L. Behrens Collection, pt. III, Sword-fittings (London, 1912), no. 1523, pl. XLIII
The fourth, Henri L. Joly, W. L. Behrens Collection, pt. III, Sword-fittings (London, 1912), no. 2500, pl. LXVII
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

The artist of the penultimate tsuba in the lot, Tenzuido Hiromasa, was of the school of Uchikoshi Hironaga, working in the middle of the 19th century.