Snake Tsuba 2

[kanemoto]

Fotos 2

[Spartancrest]

Uwe they never just make one of anything, these type of snake tsuba are reasonably common. This coppery coloured one from the "Fine Japanese and Korean Art including Japanese Screens from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Simone and Alan Hartman Collection of Japanese Art Part II"   https://www.bonhams....th-and-19th-century/

 

 

One in the V&A  https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O461256/tsuba-zuiryuken-terutomo/tsuba-zuiryūken-terutomo/

Ashmolean museum has two https://jameelcentre...ction/8/object/21543    https://jameelcentre...ction/8/object/21544

Met - https://www.metmuseu...lection/search/28482 - never mounted  - Inscribed on the reverse: 水府住一柳軒友壽刀 Suifu-jū Ichiryūken Tomotoshi horu (Carved by Ichiryūken Tomotoshi, resident of Mito)

 

Old thread here 

 

The inevitable FAKES 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/314125213484

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204979008025

https://www.aliexpre...gatewayAdapt=glo2usa  -  TRASH!

https://www.etsy.com...387aeb1%3A1290205401  - mounted TRASH!

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204956011110  -  mounted TRASH!

 

The Walters museum has a snake wrapped around the saya https://art.thewalte...des-5112691-5112695/

but the images are rather poor.

 

However I have never seen a koshirae as good as the one you have, and I have no doubt your tsuba is genuine and top of the line.