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AN OMORI SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1775), SIGNED OMORI EISHU (TERUHIDE)
The oval plate is decorated in shakudo nanako. The nanako extends over the edge and is carved in high relief and inlaid in gold, silver, and soft metal depicting a mythical lion dog (shishi) under a large peony plant; the reverse shows a spray of flowering peony--height 7.2cm., width 6.6cm., thickness 4.75mm.
Double wood storage boxes. Inner box with hakogaki by Sato Kanzan, dated autumn, 1972.
Accompanied by a Tokubetsu kicho ninteisho, no. 238, dated April 15th, 1971, issued by the N.B.T.H.K.