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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 14, 2016 | Bonhams | New York | Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art | 241 | $****** - ****** | A Koto tanto blade with later mounts The blade by Bizen Sukesada |
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The blade of slender hira-zukuri configuration and forged in mokume hada, the tempered edge hitatsuraba in nioi, the tang with one hole, signed and dated Bizen no kuni no ju Osafune Sukesada saku, Tensho hachinen nigatsu kichijitsu (a lucky day in the second month of the eighth year of Tensho [1580]), one-piece silver habaki carved with a dragon and maple, signed Kanemasa, 9 1/8in (23.2cm) long; in a shirasaya
The 19th-century koshira-e comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated with cranes and applied with gold kanamono of two Chinese lions; the tsuba in the form of a tiger, the fuchi-gashira of silver with tigers and bamboo in relief, signed Haruaki Hogen with a kao, and dated Ansei hinoe-tatsu (1856); the associated shakudo nanako kozuka decorated with a Chinese lion in takazogan; the gilt-metal Chinese-lion menuki, the shibuichi kojiri carved with chrysanthemums
