"Japan - Edo Period (1603 - 1868) Tsuba In Openwork Iron Eighteenth Adorned With A Phoenix In Flight Musashi"
Tsuba in red copper iron (passage of the saber blade), openwork with a chiseled decor of flowers and leaves of chrysanthemums with a phoenix in flight. Unsigned, workshops in the Musashi province. Height: 67 mm width 64 mm Old collection label marked in ink "N ° 9 Tsuba in openwork iron decorated chiseled and inlaid with red copper and damask gold, workshop of Yedo Musashi XVIIIth XIXth" Circa 1800