A Very Strange Tsuba!

[Thierry BERNARD]

this is the first time I see such tsuba!!

I want to share it

 

any thought about age school???

[Stephen]

What i love about this hobby, always something new to learn, staying tuned. 

[Brian]

Definitely an earlier one modified later. Maybe the outer plate had some significance to a new owner?

[Geraint]

The brass plate looks as if it might have been engine turned, perhaps a European piece adapted to the tsuba.  The wire net seems to have a mesh that gets larger as it moves toward the rim.

 

Intriguing.

 

All the best.

[John A Stuart]

This is something I have not seen before, extreme modification. Attractive tsuba, to me. John

[Stephen]

maybe off a foil??

[jason_mazzy]

Boy I sure hope Ford has a thing or two to say about it.

[lonely panet]

pimp my tsuba

[Toryu2020]

Wonderful piece - my guess would that this is meant to be a (Jin-) Kasa a straw hat.

Love this!

[Jorgensen]

lol @ hamfish

 

Very special tsuba, looks very well made, have not been easy. The pattern inside make me think of bees net.

[Gunome]

Hello Thierry,

If you have the poncetton catalogue, please have a look at tsuba number 12.

Same thing like this one

Sebastien

[Thierry BERNARD]

Thank you Sebastien! found it!

 

Tsuba en fer, ovale, ajourée en positif. Elle est fortifiée postérieurement d'une plaque de sentoku, intérieurement dorée et ornée d'un grillage de fils de bronze: 0,088 x 0,086. Bambous et oiseaux stylisés. Oeuvre d'un «Tsubako». Epoque des Ashikaga XVIe siècle. Provenant de la vente Hawkshaw, 1910, n. 5159. Reproduite dans ce Catalogue, pl. IX.

[MauroP]

I've found another similar one, so a rare but not unique finding. Attribution Iyo-Shōami.

(from: http://www.hyozaemon.jp/product/tsuba005/)

 

Bye, Mauro

[Thierry BERNARD]

found another sample in the JC HAWKSHAW colection (but it's the same as the one in the PONCETTON collection)