Arts of the samurai

IRON SUKASHI TSUBA

IRON SUKASHI TSUBA

Japan, Edo period, ca. 1800

A relatively thin marugata tsuba with a design of flowers and grasses in yo-sukashi. Parts with gold nunome-zogan displaying morning dew . The kozuka-hitsu-ana filled in with shakudo, the seppa-dai signed ‘Choshu ju Masasada’. Other tsuba by the same artist are in the Church Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection.

Diameter: 6,7 cm

Provenance:

– Private Dutch Collection

 

Price: € 550,-

Objectnumber 89

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