Sale 6820
London
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12 November 2003
Price realised
GBP 4,182
Estimate
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
Mike and Hiroko Dean, Nihon no Shikki Japanese Lacquer - an Exposition (Kyoto, 1984), no. 111
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