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Lot 752
TACHI AND WAKIZASHI WITH EMBLEM DECORATION
Estimated Value:
500 € - 800 €
Schätzpreis:
650 €
Description:
Japan. 18th/19th c.Gesamt L. 118/ 69 cm
a) Tachi: mokume- to itame-hada. Apocryphal signature on the blade. Tsuba: bronze, mokku-gata, openwork, with a dragon. Fushi kashira and mount with dragon and tiger in high relief. Menuki: bronze, kiri mon. tsubaki: copper. Cord wrap: red silk and leather. Scabbard: Red lacquer. b) Wakizashi: Tsuba: bronze. naga aoi-gata, openwork with cherry blossoms. Fushi kashira: Bronze with gilding. Wisteria. Menuki: bronze gilded. Kozuka: copper, same with lacquer, satsuma-mon. Habaki: Copper bronze. Scabbard: Brownish lacquer with aoi-mon, possibly added later.
Collection of Siegfried Claßen (1935-2022), Cologne, assembled between 1960 and 1990
Signs of age and use, blades scratched, in the wakizashi scabbard damaged
