Japanese & Korean Works of Art - 20 May 2025
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A COLLECTION OF FIVE JAPANESE MIXED-METAL KOZUKA
A COLLECTION OF FIVE JAPANESE MIXED-METAL KOZUKA
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
One signed Iwamoto Konkan, 9.5cm max. (5)
The Iwamoto Konkan tsuba decorated with insects; another with a large cockerel perched on a discarded war drum, a symbol of peace; the third with a resting ox, another with five horses galloping and the last with a bird in flight towards a torii gate; some with details rendered in gold, silver and copper.
See the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, access. no.51.1158.4 for another kozuka by Iwamoto Konkan (c.1744-1801).
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