A Tanto
10
A Tanto
Unsigned, Shinto
The hira-zukuri blade chiselled and pierced with a dragon and ken horimono, two mekugi-ana, suguha hamon, itame hada, fully bound tsuka with shakudo-nanako fuchi-kashira decorated with copper and gilt crayfish, copper crayfish menuki, and oval copper tsuba with ishime rim, in its black lacquered ebi-saya with large copper kojiri in the form of a crayfish and complete with soritsuna and copper nanako kodzuka decorated with a gilt crayfish (uragawara missing)
25.8 cm. blade
Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Acquired at auction in Copenhagen, 28 April 1947

    Literature:
    Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 324, pp. 279, 289 and 292, figs. 65 and 66

Category: Arms and Armour

Auction terms and conditions

Contacts

David Williams Bonhams
Work
Montpelier Street
London, SW7 1HH
United Kingdom
Work +44 20 7393 3807
FaxFax: +44 20 7393 3932
Specialist - Arms and Armor