Ending 21st Apr, 2024 14:00

Olympia Timed Spring 2024

 
  Lot 12
 

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A JAPANESE IRON TSUBA (HAND GUARD) OF MARU GATA (ROUND FORM), CIRCA 1650-1750

pierced with stylised decoration of horse fittings 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), the nakago-ana with two small copper fillets (sekigane) which help the blade stay fixed in the tsuba, unsigned

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pierced with stylised decoration of horse fittings 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), the nakago-ana with two small copper fillets (sekigane) which help the blade stay fixed in the tsuba, unsigned

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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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