Lot Essay
This artist is unrecorded. The work is of fine quality and it is likely that this is an art-name for one of the masters of the Ishiguro school.
Details
AN ISHIGURO SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1850), SIGNED ISHIGURO MASATOSHI WITH KAO
The oval shakudo nanako plate tapers slightly at the edge. It is decorated in inlaid silver, copper, gold, and shakudo with a rooster beside flowering peony. A hen and another stand of flowering peony is shown on the reverse--height 7.4cm., width 6.8cm., thickness 4.5mm.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1850), SIGNED ISHIGURO MASATOSHI WITH KAO
The oval shakudo nanako plate tapers slightly at the edge. It is decorated in inlaid silver, copper, gold, and shakudo with a rooster beside flowering peony. A hen and another stand of flowering peony is shown on the reverse--height 7.4cm., width 6.8cm., thickness 4.5mm.
Provenance
C. P. Peak
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 492.
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 492.
Literature
Joly (1916), Vol. II, pl. CXLII, no. 875 and in the text p. 166.