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BRONZE & METALWARES 45 47
EIGHT IRON TSUBA AND ONE BRASS
42 TSUBA 47
A LARGE BRONZE TIGER Edo and Meiji A PAIR OF INLAID BRONZE VASES
By Genryusai Seiya, Meiji Comprising four iron sukashi tsuba, one By the Hattori Company, Meiji
Naturalistically modelled prowling with head Kyo-sukashi, in the form of a crane with Each of slender gently tapering rectangular
raised to roar, cast with textured markings, spread wings, 7cm, one Owari, pierced with form, decorated with birds among willow,
signed on underside, flying birds and ginger shoots, 7cm, one lotus, bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemum
60cm long Ko-Shoami carved with a crane over waves, in copper, silver and shakudo flat and relief
7cm, and one in the form of a crane, with inlay, company mark to base,
£500 - 700 gilt details, signed Jakushi, 7.6cm, a large 24.2cm high
iron tsuba decorated in brass relief inlay with
43 armour and a signpost amid clouds, 8.5cm, £1,000 - 1,500
A BRONZE TERRAPIN GROUP another tsuba inlaid with herons among reeds
Meiji by a stream, signed Hokkokusai Masahide, 48
A small terrapin rises on its rear legs to 7.6cm, two Mito tsuba, one carved and inlaid AN INLAID BRONZE VASE
clamber on the back of another separately with Gama rennin, 7.3cm, the other with a By the Hattori Company, Meiji
cast larger reptile, signed, kneeling sage, 7cm, an oval brass tsuba Of square baluster form and raised on
13cm long carved and partly pierced with an eagle about bracket feet, each side decorated with birds
to attack a monkey hiding in a cave, signed and autumn trees below scrolling band at
£200 - 300 Hiroyoshi with a kao, neck, all in copper, silver and shakudo flat
6.7cm diameter inlay, company mark to base,
44 20cm high
FIVE TSUBA AND THREE FUCHI £600 - 800
Meiji
A round pierced and inlaid tsuba, 46
decorated with panels of bamboo, prunus AN INLAID BRONZE VASE
chrysanthemum and orchid, 7.1cm long, Meiji
a round inlaid tsuba decorated with two The four-sided pear-shaped vase with
chidori on flowering prunus, signed, 7.7cm moulded dragon-head handles, the larger
long, a round pierced and inlaid example sides decorated with a village below pine
bearing a stylised flower, signed, 7.4cm long, trees opposing lotus leaves and flowers,
two quatrefoil-shaped and inlaid tsuba, one butterfly patterns to the narrow sides and
decorated with three horses by a river, one triangular bands to neck and foot, all in
with quail by a river, 8.5cm and 7.6cm long, copper, silver and shakudo flat inlay,
together with three inlaid fuchi decorated with 19.5cm high
birds, dragons in waves and shells,
with paulownia wood boxes £400 - 600
£300 - 400
£400 - 600
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