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  • Jizai okimono bronze articulated model of a crab. Meiji period.

    Jizai okimono bronze articulated model of a crab. Japan, Meiji period(1868-1912). Size: Body: 6.5 x 6 cm. Total: 23 x 11 cm. Weight: 762 g
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  • Iron tsuba with cormorant fisherman in disguise motif. Edo period

    Iron tsuba of oval form carved and inlaid in gold and copper with cormorant fisherman in disguise. Unsigned. Dimensions: 67.7 mm x 61.5 mm x 3.8 mm (at seppa-dai) Edo period: 18th century. "Since Nara period, Japanese fishermen in small boats have used cormorants (u) to catch river fish at night, binding the necks of the birds so that the fish are not swallowed. [...] The bird and the work it performs are symbols of selfless devotion to one's master and keen eyesight." - from Merrily Baird. Symbols of Japan. Thematic motifs in art and design. Rizzoli international publications, Inc., 2001; p. 104. See also TSU-0212 and TSU-0096  
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  • Bronze tsuba decorated with lobster and sea shells. Late Edo period.

    Bronze tsuba of mokkō form with narrow slightly raised rim carved in kebori with the sea weed and inlaid with a lobster (ebi) made of copper on the face and two sea shells made of shakudo on the back. Lobster's antennae inlaid in gold, and eyes inlaid in shakudo. Ishime-ji treated surface.

    Unsigned.

    Late Edo period (mid-19th century). Dimensions: 76.3 x 71.1 x 3.7 mm
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  • Ōdachi iron tsuba with yamagane fukurin. Early Muromachi period (1393-1453).

    Large iron tsuba with hammer marks on the surface, small oval opening to the right of nakaga-ana; yamagane fukurin chiselled with tortois shell diaper pattern.

    Early Muromachi period (1393-1453). Size: 101.2 x 101.9 x 2.4 (center), 5.2 (rim) mm; weight: 148.4 g.  
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  • Library embosser “Ex Libris Comte Tony de Vibraye” / France, early 20th century.

    Iron pliers painted black and outlined in gilt lacquer, with wooden handle and bronze seals, "Ex Libris Comte Tony de Vibraye", L17.1 x W6.9 x H7.5 cm. Provenance: Antoine Henri Gaston Hurault de Vibraye [Comte Tony de Vibraye] (French, 1893 – 1951). The book with such a stamp in this library: [LIB-3243.2023] Crébillon fils. La Nuit et le moment ou Les Matinées de Cythère / Illustrations de Sylvain Sauvage. — Paris: Au dépens d’un amateur, 1924.  
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