AN UMETADA SCHOOL TSUBA

细节

AN UMETADA SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1850)

The iron plate of rounded and slightly trapezoidal shape has a high, well-hammered rim and edge. The sunken web is carved in relief with an old plum tree that exhibits a few blooms, one of which has a gold center. The reverse is carved with a branch of the same tree and in the lower right area a Chinese-style character cut in deep grooves--height 8.2cm., width 7.6cm., thickness at center 3.0mm., at edge 6.25mm.

拍品专文

This tsuba has the Chinese character "Tada" as part of the design on the reverse. In this form it was a signature used by Umetada Masahide of Edo (fl. 1850). He is one of several artists who also signed with the plum (ume) rebus signature and the kanji "Tada". Little is known about him but many of his tsuba came to the west in the Meiji era (1868-1911).