Lot 196
196
A GOTO ICHIJO TSUBA

Details
A GOTO ICHIJO TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1860), SIGNED GOTO HOK'KYO ICHIJO AND KAO

The rounded, rectangular shakudo plate with a polished surface and delicately raised, irregular edge, decorated with a lotus in a stream and inlaid with a large, gold blossom and three gold buds, shibuichi leaves with gold and copper accents, the water in silver lines and fine, gold nashiji inlay, the reverse decorated with a gold lotus bud, a shakudo leaf, silver water lines, and a gold nashiji ground, inlaid with a shibuichi water bug--6.7cm. high, 6cm. wide, 2.75mm. thick at center, 4mm. thick at edge

Wood storage box
Literature
Shoyu Kai, Tosogu Yuhin Zufu (April 22, 1988) vol. 5, p. 16, top illustration

Lot Essay

Goto Ichijo (1791-1876) was the sixth master of the Hachirobei Goto family. Compare the daisho tsuba by Goto Ichijo sold in these rooms on March 31, 1992, in the Collection of Walter A. Compton, Part I, lot 167.