Details
A KEN WITH SHARI-NASHIJI HILT AND SCABBARD
The blade tsurugi-tsukuri with dragon and flaming tama horimono, bonji and rendai on the reverse, nashiji hada and ko-midare hamon, ubu nakago, unsigned, 19th century, 61.2cm.; a scabbard (degraded) and copper fittings (originally gilt) engraved with stylized clouds, the kabuto gane with a vajra finial
The blade tsurugi-tsukuri with dragon and flaming tama horimono, bonji and rendai on the reverse, nashiji hada and ko-midare hamon, ubu nakago, unsigned, 19th century, 61.2cm.; a scabbard (degraded) and copper fittings (originally gilt) engraved with stylized clouds, the kabuto gane with a vajra finial
Provenance
Sir Frank Bowden, Bt., Christie's, June 22 1982, lot 52