An unusual shakudo kozuka
Mito School, circa 1800
Bearing a ground of over fifteen grades of nanako and inlaid with a hawk attacking a crane in mid air in silver and shakudo takazogan with slight gold details, signed Taka Hirotsune with kao.
Sold for £1,440 (€1,703) inc. premium
Footnotes
小柄　鷹と鶴　銘「高廣常（花押）」　1800年頃

Provenance: H.L. Joly collection.
W.W. Winkworth collection.

Exhibited: Red Cross Exhibition, 1915, Catalogue, no.815, illus. pl.CXLV.

For the maker, Takahashi Hirotsune, see Haynes, Index, no.H 01438. He was a student of Kato Naotsune and was well known for his nanako grounds.