A KYO-SUKASHI TSUBA

細節
A KYO-SUKASHI TSUBA
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (1573-1600)

The round iron plate is pierced with a design of four Chinese characters (kanji): flower, bird, wind, and moon. Three fern scrolls are placed between them and there is a bird motif at the top. The rim is rounded with delicate iron bones--height 7.9cm., width 7.8cm., thickness 5mm.
來源
Henri L. Joly
Glendining & Co., London, 1965, lot 157.
出版
Joly (1917) no. 60, p. 114, illustrated, description p. 117.

拍品專文

This style of delicate sukashi work was popular in Kyoto during the Momoyama and early Edo periods (1573-1650). This example is from the early Edo period.