Arts of the samurai

IRON CHOSU TSUBA

IRON CHOSU TSUBA

Japan, 18th century

The oval shaped relatively thin but well forged tsuba has a refined decoration of a woven basket filled with chrysanthemum flowers in ji-sukashi and niku-bori.

Height: 7.4 cm

Provenance:

Delen Family Collection, Lisse

Aalderink Oriental Art and Ethnografica, Amsterdam

Price: € 1.500,-

Objectnumber: 106

Compare:

– Murakami Kosuke, Choshu no Tsuba, Tokyo 1973, plate 45

– Henry L. Joly, Japanese Sword Fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton Esq., London 1912, nr. 852

– John D. Hamilton, The Peabody Museum Collection of Japanese Sword Guards, with selected pieces of Sword Furniture, Salem, Massachusetts, 1975. Plate XXI, nr.2

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