AN IWATA NORISUKE II TSUBA

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AN IWATA NORISUKE II TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1840), SIGNED BIFU JU NORISUKE

The oval iron plate with slighlty raised rim, the plate carved in broad strokes with a radiating pattern (amida Yasuri), and pierced with a butterfly design and two udenuki-ana, the rim with many hammer marks and iron bones--8.3cm. high, 7.8cm. wide, 4mm. thick

Lot Essay

Compare this example by Norisuke with one sold in these rooms in the Collection of Walter A. Compton, Part I, lot 88, on March 31, 1992. This style of plate, largely made by the Iwata school, is usually unsigned and undecorated.