Lot 164
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THREE SENTOKU TSUBA

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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THREE SENTOKU TSUBA
Edo Period (18th Century)
A rounded-square sentoku tsuba carved and pierced with a figure standing on a boat beneath a full moon, signed Sekiguchi Tsuneshige; a rounded square sentoku plate carved in nikubori with gilt details and a sage holding a Chinese fan while sitting beneath a pine tree, signed Tsuneshige; and a rounded square sentoku tsuba carved in nikubori and inlaid with a monkey trainer with his monkey beneath a willow tree, signed Tsuneshige
7.4cm., 6.9cm. and 7.6cm. (3)
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Lot Essay

For the artist see Robert E. Haynes, The Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artists, (Ellwangen, 2001), 3 volumes, p.2125, no.10905
Tsuneshige was a pupil of Nara Shigetsugu, he worked in Edo, and Dr Torigoe states that unusually for a kinko artist he folded his plate metal in the manner of an iron tsuba

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