Lot Essay
Hosuiken Masatoshi was the second son of the fifth Tsuchiya Yasuchika
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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TWO SHIBUICHI TSUBA AND AN IRON TSUBA
Edo Period (19th Century)
A rounded-square silvered copper plate carved in katakiribori with Hotei sleeping on his sack, signed Hosuiken (Masatoshi); a kemarigata shibuichi plate carved and inlaid in gilt with a bat in copper takazogan flying over paulownia in iroe takazogan, signed Tou; and a mokkogata iron plate carved in sukidashibori and inlaid in takazogan with a Nio, signed Tsuchiya Shomin
7cm., 6.1cm., 7.4cm. (3)
Edo Period (19th Century)
A rounded-square silvered copper plate carved in katakiribori with Hotei sleeping on his sack, signed Hosuiken (Masatoshi); a kemarigata shibuichi plate carved and inlaid in gilt with a bat in copper takazogan flying over paulownia in iroe takazogan, signed Tou; and a mokkogata iron plate carved in sukidashibori and inlaid in takazogan with a Nio, signed Tsuchiya Shomin
7cm., 6.1cm., 7.4cm. (3)
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