Ending 21st Apr, 2024 14:00

Olympia Timed Spring 2024

 
  Lot 9
 

9

A JAPANESE NAVAL DIRK, CIRCA 1880-1900

Sugata (configuration): hira zukuri (flat profile with no longitudinal ridge), forging and tempering details mostly obscured by rubbing, silver habaki (collar) with family crest of opposing ginger shoots; nakago (tang) unable to unscrew sakura shaped peg cover

Koshirae (mounting): saya (scabbard) of wood covered with fine high quality samegawa (ray skin), brass fittings decorated with sakura (cherry blossom) on a hammered ground; wooden tsuka (hilt) wrapped with coiled samegawa (rayskin)

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Sold for £1,200


 

Sugata (configuration): hira zukuri (flat profile with no longitudinal ridge), forging and tempering details mostly obscured by rubbing, silver habaki (collar) with family crest of opposing ginger shoots; nakago (tang) unable to unscrew sakura shaped peg cover

Koshirae (mounting): saya (scabbard) of wood covered with fine high quality samegawa (ray skin), brass fittings decorated with sakura (cherry blossom) on a hammered ground; wooden tsuka (hilt) wrapped with coiled samegawa (rayskin)

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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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