A Kinko (Mixed-Metal) Tsuba

LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED IN HOKUSAI I (FROM A DESIGN BY HOKUSAI) SEISHINKEN MOTOTOSHI

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A Kinko (Mixed-Metal) Tsuba
Late Edo period (19th century), signed In Hokusai i (from a design by Hokusai) Seishinken Mototoshi
Copper, rounded-square plate with a raised rim and designed with two people resting beneath a pine tree by the seashore, a phoenix in the man's basket and the woman's basket filled with abalone shells in takabori and iroe takazogan
3¼in. (8.3cm.) long

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Please note that the author's name in the publication information should read Torigoe Kazutoshi.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Torikoshi Ichitaro, Tsuba kansho ki, (Tokyo: Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan, 1965), p. 321.

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