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    Sale 6820

    JAPANESE ART AND DESIGN INCLUDING LACQUER AND WORKS OF ART

    London

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    12 November 2003

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    • A LACQUERED TSUBA
    Lot 114

    A LACQUERED TSUBA

    EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

    Price realised

    GBP 4,182

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 5,000

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    A LACQUERED TSUBA
    Edo Period (17th Century)
    The circular iron plate with a black lacquer ground decorated in hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kakiwari and harigaki, one side with kiku [chrysanthemum], hagi [bush clover] and susuki [pamper grass] over a bamboo garden fence, the reverse with chidori [plover], twelve of them circling the tsuba in a clockwise direction and eighteen others counter-clockwise, the fukurin [rim] and the ryohitsu [holes for kozuka and kogai] of silver
    ¼ x 3 x 3in. (0.5 x 7.7 x 7.6cm.)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Mike and Hiroko Dean, Nihon no Shikki Japanese Lacquer - an Exposition (Kyoto, 1984), no. 111


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    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


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