拍品 184
184
AN UMETADA-SCHOOL TSUBA

細節
AN UMETADA-SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1825), SIGNED OITE NOBUIE ZU MINAMOTO MUNEYOSHI SEI KORE SHITA JI UMETADA MASAHIDE TSUKURU

The mokko iron plate with a thick, raised and carved edge, and rim in tortoiseshell pattern, the web carved with raised crossbars and tortoiseshell pattern, some crossbars with heavy gold nunome inlay--8.3cm. high, 7.1cm. wide, 2.5mm. thick at center, 6.5mm. thick at edge

Wood storage box

拍品專文

The two Umetada artists who made this tsuba took the design from a famous Nobuie example. Masahide, the maker of the plate (fl. circa 1825), often used the plum rebus signature. Muneyoshi often signed as living in Akashi Banshu (Harima) or Hoshi no Oka (a district of Tokyo).