THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH COLLECTOR
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FOUR TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (17TH - 19TH CENTURY)
The collection comprising:
1. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with two apes
2. A round iron tsuba pierced with a chrysanthemum blossom, birds and leaves
3. A hachi-mokko (octafoil) tsuba pierced with eight apertures, copper edging
4. A round iron tsuba pierced with stylised birds and young fern
5. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with water plantain
6. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with waves and a water wheel
7. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with a flowering plum bough, signed Echizen (no) ju Kinai saku
8. A round iron tsuba carved as if the riveted plates of a helmet viewed from above, signed Myochin ki (no) Muneyoshi
9. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with tied paper Shinto offerings
10. A rounded-square rimmed iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with flowering ground plant and tree
11. A round iron tsuba pierced with a swastika in both positive and negative silhouette
12. A round iron tsuba pierced with birds over waves, signed Echizen Kinai saku
13. A round iron tsuba carved overall with wood grain
14. A quatrafoil migakiji iron tsuba pierced with four groups of buds
15. A mokko tsuba carved in simulation of rotting wood with a spider's web and hornet
16. A round iron tsuba with engraved whorls and pierced with water wheels, gilt details, signed Yamashiro kuni...
17. A rounded kawarigata tsuba pierced and roundly carved with folded fans among waves and discs, signed Yamashiro kuni (no) ju Umetada Takashige
18. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with armoured horsemen riding through high waters beneath a bridge
19. A round iron tsuba pierced and roundly carved with the Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Good Fortune), details in copper, gold and silver inlay, signed Mogarashi Nyudo Soten sei
20. An octagonal iron tsuba with a dragon over waves beneath clouds carved in sunken relief, gilt details
21. A round iron migakiji tsuba pierced with a waterside shrine among pines, and flying birds under the sun, details in gold inlay
22. A round tsuba deeply carved with sea waves, signed Bushu (no) ju Masayuki and with a kakihan
23. A round iron nanban tsuba pierced with opposed dragons, gilt details
24. A round tsuba pierced and carved with tied paper charms, signed Yasuchika
Various sizes from 6.3cm. high to 8.5cm. high

Provenance:
Harold Brownsword (1885-1961), Professor of Sculpture at Regent Street Polytechnic, and thence by descent

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