Details
TWO SOFT METAL TSUBA
Decorated with a tiger and bamboo in katakiribori, with signature Soyo and Kao, one hitsuana plugged with shibuichi and carved with parts of tiger, 7.2cm; and a rounded-square shakudo tsuba depicting grazing horses beneath willow tree in katakiribori, with signature Somin and Kao, 7.4cm., both late Edo period (19th century) (2)
Decorated with a tiger and bamboo in katakiribori, with signature Soyo and Kao, one hitsuana plugged with shibuichi and carved with parts of tiger, 7.2cm; and a rounded-square shakudo tsuba depicting grazing horses beneath willow tree in katakiribori, with signature Somin and Kao, 7.4cm., both late Edo period (19th century) (2)
Provenance
The first tsuba
G.H. Naunton Collection, no. 1744.
F.J. Peploe Collection
H.A.W. Backhoff Collection, October 27 1981
and the second tsuba
Ruth Schneidman Collection
G.H. Naunton Collection, no. 1744.
F.J. Peploe Collection
H.A.W. Backhoff Collection, October 27 1981
and the second tsuba
Ruth Schneidman Collection