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Lot 15

Three Soft-Metal Tsuba
The First Signed Masanobu, Edo Period

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Three Soft-Metal Tsuba
The First Signed Masanobu, Edo Period

The first oval shakudo engraved with a figure and a butterfly within a gilt roped rim; the second oval copper decorated with foliage, a tiger and butterflies in shakudo, copper and gold; the last yamagane, cast and pierced with Hotei and his sack with copper and gilt details (3)
6.2 cm., 7.2 cm. and 5.7 cm.

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Provenance:
The first ex Gardiner and Duncan Beresford-Jones Collections

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