A Ko-Akasaka Tsuba

UNSIGNED, EARLY EDO PERIOD, (17TH CENTURY)

細節
A Ko-Akasaka Tsuba
Unsigned, early Edo period, (17th century)
The nadegata iron plate pierced with a design of a stylised itomaki [spool]
3 1/8in. (7.9cm.), mimi 7mm.
來源
Vever Collection, part II, no. 77
出版
Lundgren Collection, no. 154

拍品專文

The subject depicts a spool but Akasaka often used curved lines in wachigai or Musashino design of which the first four generations, Tadamasa I and II, Tadatora and Tadamune made many. This unruffled effect is possibly by the third generation.