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    JAPANESE ART AND DESIGN INCLUDING LACQUER AND WORKS OF ART

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    12 November 2003

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    • A Keito no Tachi Pommel
    Lot 224

    A Keito no Tachi Pommel

    KOFUN PERIOD (4TH-6TH CENTURY)

    Price realised

    GBP 2,629

    Estimate

    GBP 2,500 - GBP 3,000

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    A Keito no Tachi Pommel
    Kofun Period (4th-6th Century)
    The gilt bronze pommel with a projecting rectangular tang cast in the form of a keito [the chickenhead of a ho-o] with elaborate comb and wattles, the gilding with malachite and incrustation
    3¼in. (8.3cm.) high

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Michael Dean, Sado - Island of Gold, International Netsuke Society Journal, Fall 1997, p. 13.


    Lot Essay

    For similar examples in the British Museum and the Tokyo National Museum see Basil Robinson, The Arts of the Japanese Sword (London, 1961), pl. 6 and Kanzan Sato and Joe Earle, The Japanese Sword (Tokyo, 1983), pl. 93.

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    Special Notice


    No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis


    Saleroom Notice

    The result of the Royal Armouries XRF quantitive analysis AM206, is consistent with the dating of the object.


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