TWO WAKIZASHI WITH LACQUER SCABBARDS

Estimated Value:

1.200 € - 1.800 €

Schätzpreis:

1.500 €

Description:

Japan, 19th c. or earlier
L. 54/ 56 cm
a) Unokubi-zukuri, bohi: short and wide. Scabbard: Matte antracite-black lacquer with kiri in deepened relief, kojiri in copper bronze. Small tsuba, iron with gold plating. Fushi-kashira: Bronze alloy with gold plating. Simple kozuka with iron handle. b) Habaki: brass, curved shape. Hira-zukuri, bohi: long and narrow. Hamon: suguha ni gunome ashi iri. Scabbard: lacquer in imitation of cherry bark. Kozuka: bronze alloy with gold and silver, fish and rock. Small tsuba: iron with gold and silver inlays. Handle with light silk wrapping. Fushi-kashira: iron, curved shape, dragon. Habaki: Copper.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Signs of wear, scabbards minor dam., one blade complete with small pits

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