Japanese & Korean Works of Art - 20th May 2025
Lot 277
TWO JAPANESE TSUBA
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £756
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Description
TWO JAPANESE TSUBA
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
One signed Toshishige, 7.6cm max. (4)
WITHOUT RESERVE
One in copper decorated with a man fishing, with scrolling clouds obscuring a weeping willow behind him, the reverse with a single bird in flight and further plants; some details rendered in gold and shakudo, signed; the other in GotÅ School style, decorated in shakudo with a figure navigating a punt, a traveller pocking his head through the cover, with pines to the side and a tiered pavilion behind; the reverse with four geese in flight beside the crescent moon, with a thatched building, pine and bamboo below; some details inlaid in gold on the granulated ground; each boxed.