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Lot 2319
Three inlaid iron tsuba 18th-19th century
20 March 2012, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$1,625 inc. premium
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Three inlaid iron tsuba
18th-19th century
Comprising a heavy, lobed iron plate worked on the surface and decorated with a flock of geese, mists and fishing nets drying above pine trees in takabori and gold, silver and shakudo takazogan, the rounded rim inlaid in scrolling silver wire; a mokko plate decorated on the surface with young bracken ferns in takabori and shakudo takazogan; a Mito-school oval tsuchimeji plate boldly carved with Daruma crossing the sea on a lotus leaf, his eyes, earring and the dots of foam inlaid in gold and silver, illegibly signed Mito ju Ie (tsugu?) saku 3 3/8in (7.6cm) long (the largest)
Comprising a heavy, lobed iron plate worked on the surface and decorated with a flock of geese, mists and fishing nets drying above pine trees in takabori and gold, silver and shakudo takazogan, the rounded rim inlaid in scrolling silver wire; a mokko plate decorated on the surface with young bracken ferns in takabori and shakudo takazogan; a Mito-school oval tsuchimeji plate boldly carved with Daruma crossing the sea on a lotus leaf, his eyes, earring and the dots of foam inlaid in gold and silver, illegibly signed Mito ju Ie (tsugu?) saku 3 3/8in (7.6cm) long (the largest)





