EDO PERIOD (16TH/19TH CENTURY)
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A TSUBA SIGNED SEIRYUKEN EIJU, AN ITO-SUKASHI TSUBA AND TEN OTHERS
Edo period (16th/19th century)
A circular iron tsuba stamped with shippo, mitsu-tomoe, plum blossoms and maple leaves, with details in gold nunome-zogan, 7.8cm.; an oval tsuba engraved with a key-fret pattern on both sides, 7.9cm.; a sukashi tsuba pierced with a design of floats on a rope, 7.4cm.; an iron sukashi tsuba, the rim formed from eight drawer-handle shapes, with eight broad ring-shapes joining them to the seppadai, 7.5cm.; a large iron tsuba carved and pierced with the story of the killing of the nue by Yorimasa, with signature Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 9.1cm.; a pierced iron tsuba, the surface blackened, probably with paint, amateur work, 7.7cm.; an iron mokko-shaped katchushi tsuba pierced with a design of a bird on a tree over a stream, 7.6cm.; a mokko-shaped iron tsuba carved and inlaid with the figure of Kinko riding on the back of a carp, the reverse with boats returning in the evening mist, inlays in gold, silver and brass, 7.9cm.; an iron tsuba carved with twelve bales of rice, signed Seiryuken Eiju with a gold inlaid kao, 7.2cm.; and an oval iron Ito-sukashi tsuba pierced with a cuckoo swooping under the moon, lines of cloud in fine saw-piercing, 7.1cm.; a shibuichi hamidashi tsuba inlaid in shakudo, gold, copper and silver with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, his staff and gourd on the reverse, Hamano school, 5.45cm.; a gilt brass shippo [cloisonné enamel] tanto tsuba, one side with colourful flowers and the other with clouds, 5.8cm. (12)
Edo period (16th/19th century)
A circular iron tsuba stamped with shippo, mitsu-tomoe, plum blossoms and maple leaves, with details in gold nunome-zogan, 7.8cm.; an oval tsuba engraved with a key-fret pattern on both sides, 7.9cm.; a sukashi tsuba pierced with a design of floats on a rope, 7.4cm.; an iron sukashi tsuba, the rim formed from eight drawer-handle shapes, with eight broad ring-shapes joining them to the seppadai, 7.5cm.; a large iron tsuba carved and pierced with the story of the killing of the nue by Yorimasa, with signature Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 9.1cm.; a pierced iron tsuba, the surface blackened, probably with paint, amateur work, 7.7cm.; an iron mokko-shaped katchushi tsuba pierced with a design of a bird on a tree over a stream, 7.6cm.; a mokko-shaped iron tsuba carved and inlaid with the figure of Kinko riding on the back of a carp, the reverse with boats returning in the evening mist, inlays in gold, silver and brass, 7.9cm.; an iron tsuba carved with twelve bales of rice, signed Seiryuken Eiju with a gold inlaid kao, 7.2cm.; and an oval iron Ito-sukashi tsuba pierced with a cuckoo swooping under the moon, lines of cloud in fine saw-piercing, 7.1cm.; a shibuichi hamidashi tsuba inlaid in shakudo, gold, copper and silver with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, his staff and gourd on the reverse, Hamano school, 5.45cm.; a gilt brass shippo [cloisonné enamel] tanto tsuba, one side with colourful flowers and the other with clouds, 5.8cm. (12)
Provenance
The fifth, J.B. Gaskell Collection
Literature
The fifth, Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 406, pl. CXXI
Exhibited
The fifth, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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