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Lot 2320
Four Nanban-style tsuba 18th-19th century
20 March 2012, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$1,250 inc. premium
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Four Nanban-style tsuba
18th-19th century
Comprising an iron Canton-style tsuba with confronting dragons among vines, a free-moving jewel at the top; a circular iron plate with a raised rim and decorated with confronting dragons and flowering vines in silver nunomezogan; a rounded-rectangular iron plate decorated with stylized phoenixes and clouds in silver nunomezogan; a circular copper plate carved with rain dragons in clouds in katakiribori, the rim with a silver "rope" fukurin 3 1/8in (7.7cm) diameter (the largest)
Comprising an iron Canton-style tsuba with confronting dragons among vines, a free-moving jewel at the top; a circular iron plate with a raised rim and decorated with confronting dragons and flowering vines in silver nunomezogan; a rounded-rectangular iron plate decorated with stylized phoenixes and clouds in silver nunomezogan; a circular copper plate carved with rain dragons in clouds in katakiribori, the rim with a silver "rope" fukurin 3 1/8in (7.7cm) diameter (the largest)





