An Owari Sukashi Tsuba

UNSIGNED, EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

细节

An Owari Sukashi Tsuba
Unsigned, early Edo period (17th Century)
The circular iron plate pierced with a design of lozenges and overlapping bracken fronds, square mimi, some traces of fine granular tekkotsu
3 3/8in. (8.6cm.), thickness 6.5mm.

来源

John Harding

出版

Lundgren Collection, no. 23

拍品专文

Owari artists have made this type of design since the Muromachi period. This compact, perfect design and the forging of the iron indicate that it is slightly later than similar examples from the Muromachi period.

Akiyama Kyusaku (1844-1936) said "Among all the sukashi pieces, there is nothing better than Owari to suit the samurai".

For a similar piece see Sasano, M, Sukashi tsuba, (Kyuryudo, Tokyo, 1994), no. 148.