VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A LARGE MOKKOGATA COPPER TSUBA carved in low relief with gilt waves overlaid with shakudo stylised clouds, the wide sahari rim carved with a mokume pattern, the large three-lobed riohitsu lined with sahari and plugged with shakudo, late 16th century, 7.6cm., in hinoki box with hakogaki by Masayuki Sasano describing the tsuba as unsigned, Ko-Kinko work of the Momoyama period, 1573-1600, the hakogaki dated Heisei ninen, 1990
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A LARGE MOKKOGATA COPPER TSUBA carved in low relief with gilt waves overlaid with shakudo stylised clouds, the wide sahari rim carved with a mokume pattern, the large three-lobed riohitsu lined with sahari and plugged with shakudo, late 16th century, 7.6cm., in hinoki box with hakogaki by Masayuki Sasano describing the tsuba as unsigned, Ko-Kinko work of the Momoyama period, 1573-1600, the hakogaki dated Heisei ninen, 1990