Unusual piece

[svarsh]

This one is made of iron with brass on top and at the bottom. Heavy - 270 g. Size: 71x69x8 mm. Any ideas regarding the time and place it was made? And what's the motif?

Thanks in advance,

Sergei

[Geraint]

Hi Sergei.

 

A piece is in a museum collection not too far from here which represents a piece of weathered wood, bound at both ends with gold as I recall. Yours reminds me of that but I can't suggest a period. I am sure others will have suggestions.

 

All the best

[svarsh]

Thank you, Geraint!

Seems like I have a similar piece. What's the museum? Do you have a connection there (email address), so I could ask the details?

Best,

S

[Thierry BERNARD]

this kind of design is common for nara school

 

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... bark-13590

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... wood-11741

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... wood-11752

[Geraint]

Nice Thierry.

 

Sergei I regret that like many museums the staff are not knowledgeable and not even interested. Their tsuba were part of a collectors legacy and have been largely ignored. For one brief period they had a curator who actually thought that the collection should be accessible to interested parties but alas she is no more.

 

Thierry has supplied good examples for you however.

All the best.

[svarsh]

Wonderful! Thank you, both.

s

[Ford Hallam]

I'm not at all convinced this tsuba is an antique. Apart from the nakago-ana and seki-gane not looking like they were made to do a job those grooves look as though they were made with an angle-grinder.

 

Sorry, but that's my opinion.

 

regards

 

Ford