JAPAN - MOMOYAMA period (1573 - 1603) - Lot 86

JAPAN - MOMOYAMA period (1573 - 1603) Kawari gata in hira bori chased iron of a dragon appearing between clouds. Two udenuki ana. Mimi raised. Unsigned. H. 7.4 cm Provenance: Robert E. Haynes Collection, sale, 1982, no. 2. Comment by Robert E. Haynes: "A very well forged sand iron plate with delicate iron bones on the edge. A most rare shape with the bold imagination of the Momoyama age. The artist is unknown and research should be done." 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°134, p.142. Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°52, p.79