Arts of the samurai

Nara-school Bronze Tsuba

Nara-school Bronze Tsuba

Japan, Edo period, 19th century

Of nadekaku-gata (square-shaped with rounded corners), decorated with a shakudo kotoji (symbol for music) among trumpet vines (lat.:campsis) on a hammered surface. A thin slightly raised edge.

Height: 7 cm

Provenance:

– Private Dutch Collection

– Christies Paris, March 5 2008, lot 432

– Collection Charles Gillot (1853-1903)

Price: € 850,-

Objectnumber: 80

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