AN EDO KINKO TSUBA

细节
AN EDO KINKO TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1880)

The iron plate of round-cornered, rectangular shape has a slightly raised rim. The face is inlaid in high relief with a silver dragon and gold accents. Opposite the dragon is a large bolt of lightning inlaid in gold. The reverse is carved in the upper right with cloud patterns and on the lower left, and bottom, a large shibuichi high crashing wave with inlaid dots of gold spray--height 6.7cm., width 6.0cm., thickness 3.5mm.
来源
S. Trower collection, no. 1492
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 350

拍品专文

This tsuba was probably made by one of the better students of Kano Natsuo, at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts.