Hamano School
An iron tsuba
Hamano School, late 19th century
Of four-lobed form, bearing a radiating hammered ground and inlaid in shibuichi takazogan with a snake in attack mode, the reverse carved in shishiaibori with two frightened fleeing men, signed Otsuryuken Masayuki and Hamano Noriyuki.
8.2cm (3¼in).
Sold for £2,640 (€3,109) inc. premium
Footnotes
鐔　大蛇　銘「乙柳軒　政随」「濱埜矩随」　19世紀後期

Provenance: Michael Tomkinson collection, no. 422.
Bradford collection, purchased at Glendining & Co., London, 1965.