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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