Lot Essay
This style and shape was based on the work of the Tsuchiya Yasuchika family school.
Details
AN EDO KINKO TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1800)
A long, round-cornered, trapezoidal-shaped brass plate has a stone finish surface and a slightly raised rim. The face is inlaid in high relief with a deer in copper, with gold spots and antlers. The reverse is decorated with linear carved designs of grass and flowers--height 6.2cm., width 4.7cm., thickness 5.0mm.
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1800)
A long, round-cornered, trapezoidal-shaped brass plate has a stone finish surface and a slightly raised rim. The face is inlaid in high relief with a deer in copper, with gold spots and antlers. The reverse is decorated with linear carved designs of grass and flowers--height 6.2cm., width 4.7cm., thickness 5.0mm.
Provenance
Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 1960, lot 240