Lot 820
  • 820

A Rare Myochin Tsuba, late Edo period (c. 1850)

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Description

  • 8.5 by 8.2cm., 3 3/8 by 3 3/16 in.
of rounded rectangular form with irregular raised rim, carved in low relief on the tsuchime-ji surface with a wheel to one side and a centipede trailing around the edge of the other, signed Shingen konomi no zu, Mo Nobuie, Myochin Yasuchika, (Lord Shingen's favourite design, made by Myochin Yasuchika, after Nobuie)

Provenance

G. H. Naunton Collection, no. 23, illus. pl. XII 

Exhibited

The Red Cross Exhibition, Japanese Art and Handicraft, London, 1915, no. 36, illustrated in the catalogue, pl. CIII