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A KOZUKA AND THREE VARIOUS TSUBA
297 Edo Period
122 | BONHAMS Comprising: a kozuka in ishime nigurome,
cast in low relief with two dragonflies; an oval
kaga tsuba decorated to the shakudo with
a mantis and grasshopper, the reverse with
a cricket; a rounded square tsuba cast in
relief in shakudo with a bat in flight, beneath
the moon appearing amongst clouds, a
gnarled trunk to the right, the reverse with a
meandering stream, signed Bushu, Edo (no)
ju Shigemitsu; and an iron tsuba, pierced with
a stylised dragonfly to one side.
9.5cm (3.3/4in) long, 8cm (3.1/8in),7.6cm
(3in) and 8.5cm (3.3/8in). (4).

£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000
HK$13,000 - 16,000

Provenance
Kozuka: Christie’s London, 14th July 1970,
lot 85.
Purchased at Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 15th July
1970.

The tsuba: Sotheby’s London, 7th December
1970, Lots 63, 76 & 79.
Purchased at Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 8th
December 1970.

297
THREE VARIOUS TSUBA
18th/19th century
Comprising: A circular iron tsuba cast in low
relief with a recumbent buffalo before pavilions
in a pine-strewn river landscape, the buffalo
in copper, flecks of gilt remaining, signed
Choshu hagi ju Tomonobu; a rounded square
tsuba, cast in low relief with Mount Fuji, the
tip of the peak heightened in silver, incised
with an ascending dragon amongst swirling
clouds, signed Kii Kuni Nobutoshi; and a fine
oval shakudo nanako tsuba cast in relief with
a carp swimming amongst aquatic plants and
swirling waters, signed Iwamoto Konkwan.
8cm (3.1/8in), 7cm (2.3/4in) and 7.6cm (3in).
(3).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,200 - 14,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000

Provenance
Christie’s London, 14 July 1970, Lots 38 &
185.
Purchased at Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 15 July
1970.