JAPAN - Early EDO period (1603 - 1868) - Lot 83

JAPAN - Early EDO period (1603 - 1868) Iron mokko gata inlaid with brass hira bori of a monkey offering a prunus branch to another. One of the round hitsu-ana filled with shakudo. Twisted brass fukurin. Unsigned. H. 8,3 cm Provenance: V.F Weber Collection, 2nd sale, Mes Lair-Dubreuil & Flagel, March 20-21, 1925, Drouot, lot 129 and reproduced pl. 1 Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°14, p.27 Featured in the exhibition Samouraïs. Guerriers et esthètes, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg, from March 11 to July 13, 2022, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalog, n°149, p.150 Reference: Illustrated in V.F Weber, Ko-Ji Ho-Ten, 1923, vol.1, p. 196, fig. 217