JAPAN - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 19th century - Lot 128

JAPAN - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 19th century Nagamaru gata in iron with openwork and inlaid decoration in hira and taka zogan of shibuichi and gilded copper of a crab and reflection of a crescent moon in water. Fukurin in shakudo. (Crescent moon slightly detached at the end). Unsigned. H. 9.2 cm Provenance: Beaussant-Lefèvre sale, October 19, 2011, n°155, former Ernest Le Véel collection Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°43, p.67 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°072, p.108 Reference: similar Tsuba in the collection of Baroness Gérard, Ader Picard Tajan sale, November 27, 1989, no. 55