Ending 21st Apr, 2024 14:00

Olympia Timed Spring 2024

 
  Lot 10
 

10

A JAPANESE IRON TSUBA (HAND GUARD) OF MARU GATA (ROUND FORM), CIRCA 1700-1800

with a hammered ground and two hitsu-ana (holes for the handles of utility knives) on either side of the nakago-ana (vertical central opening for the sword blade), decorated with scholars (or courtiers) in carved and applied gold, silver and copper, being punted along a river under plum blossom in a mountainous landscape, unsigned


 

with a hammered ground and two hitsu-ana (holes for the handles of utility knives) on either side of the nakago-ana (vertical central opening for the sword blade), decorated with scholars (or courtiers) in carved and applied gold, silver and copper, being punted along a river under plum blossom in a mountainous landscape, unsigned

Auction: Olympia Timed Spring 2024, ending 21st Apr, 2024

 

Including:

Antique Arms & Armour

Asian Works of Art

Fine Art Books, Including Books from Three Specialist Libraries of Indian and South-East Asian Art Reference Books

Works by Nadira Azzouz (Iraqi 1927-2020)

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