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Lot 751
KATANA WITH LACQUER SCABBARD WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAYS
Estimated Value:
600 € - 1.000 €
Schätzpreis:
1.000 €
Description:
Japan, 18th/19th c.Gesamt L. 92 cm
Katana: Hamon: notare. Kozuka: copper bronze, in relief a tiger, gilded, signed on the back: Sōmin saku / made by Sōmin (1670-1733). Tsuba: copper bronze gilded, openwork, dormouse in grapes. Menuki: copper bronze. Fushi kashira: Dark copper bronze with gilding: kiri on coarsely punched background. Habaki: Gilded. Scabbard: Black lacquer inlaid with large pieces of mother-of-pearl (abalone).
Collection of Siegfried Claßen (1935-2022), Cologne, assembled between 1960 and 1990
Traces of age and use, minor forging flaws, rubbed, scratched, a black lacquered wooden stand (katanakake)
