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LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A JAPANESE KATANA WITH CARVED BONE SCABBARD AND HILT
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With polished single-edged blade with incised decoration to one side, unusual cast brass tsuba in the form of a chrysanthemum with panels bearing Japanese characters, deities and petals inset with bone, the hilt and scabbard engraved with foliage and carved in low relief with figures including warriors
28½in (72.4cm) blade
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With polished single-edged blade with incised decoration to one side, unusual cast brass tsuba in the form of a chrysanthemum with panels bearing Japanese characters, deities and petals inset with bone, the hilt and scabbard engraved with foliage and carved in low relief with figures including warriors
28½in (72.4cm) blade
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