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AN OVAL SHIBUICHI TSUBA BY MASAYUKI
The plate decorated with a flying crane with silver wings, shakudo body and gilt legs, the design turning from the back over the top to the front of the tsuba, with pine trees in slight takazogan of shakudo, signed Shoryuken, Masayuki and Kao, late Edo period (19th century), 7.8cm.
The plate decorated with a flying crane with silver wings, shakudo body and gilt legs, the design turning from the back over the top to the front of the tsuba, with pine trees in slight takazogan of shakudo, signed Shoryuken, Masayuki and Kao, late Edo period (19th century), 7.8cm.
Provenance
Russel C. Veit Collection
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Armour and Arms Club catalogue of a loan exhibition of Japanese sword guards, 1921