A Kamakura-bori Tsuba

Price Upon Request

Period: Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama (1573-1615)

Date:  16th century

Medium: iron

Dimensions: width x (plate) thickness; (7.5 cm x 0.269 cm)

Weight: 76.3 grams

*Note that the “white spots” in the photo on the tsuba are gilt.

 

 

SKU: T7` Category: Tags: , , , ,

 

 A iron mokko shaped plate pierced with inome at the lobes.  The surface has been carved with rocks, flowers, waves, and silk tassels; the surface has some gilt that is not particularly apparent to the naked eye but shows in the photos as “white spots/specks”.  Comes with a wood tomobako storage box.

Condition: Good with rusty coloration on some areas of the interior walls of the inome,

Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of New York, sold Christie’s New York, March 18 2008, lot 301 (part)

Howard Mansfield Collection

 

Weight 1.5 lbs
Dimensions 6 × 6 × 6 in