Japanese Works of Art - 17th May 2022
Lot 218
TWO JAPANESE INLAID IRON TSUBA
Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £50
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Description
TWO JAPANESE INLAID IRON TSUBA
EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
The largest of oval shape and decorated to one side with two figures wearing Heian-style garments, the tallest possibly the poet Prince Narihara, with branches of pines above them and Mount Fuji towering in the distance; the reverse with a figure looking in the distance seen from the back; the smaller tsuba of rhomboid shape with curved corners, decorated in openwork with butterfly shapes and inlaid with two chidori (plovers) flying above a stream, both unsigned, 6.9cm and 6cm respectively. (2)
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