A Small Iron Tsuba

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Small Iron Tsuba
Edo period (19th century)
Oval, decorated on the iron ground on both sides with scenes from the Tale of the Heike, the front with Yoshitsune leading his troops down a cliff at Ichinotani, the reverse with Atsumori pursued into the sea by Kumagai Naozane, all in gold, silver, copper, shakudo and shibuichi takazogan, the clouds carved in sunken relief
2¾in. (7cm.) long

Provenance

Matt Garbutt
C.P. Peak
Axel Petersen, Esq., sold Sotheby's London, 10 March, 1970, lot 34

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Henri L. Joly, Legends in Japanese Art, reprint London, 1908 (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1976), p. 583.

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