Japanese & Korean Works of Art - 20th May 2025

Lot 286

A COLLECTION OF FIVE JAPANESE MIXED-METAL KOZUKA

Estimate £600 - £800

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Description

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).