Tanaka School
An iron tsuba By Morikawa Toshikage, Tanaka School, 19th century
An iron tsuba
By Morikawa Toshikage, Tanaka School, 19th century
Of irregular, rectangular form with indented corners and raised rim, carved with a sunken panel, inlaid with ducks beneath a cherry tree, in gold and silver takazogan, the reverse with Fujiyama among clouds seen beyond the inlaid sea, signed Toshikage with kao. 7cm (2¾in).
FOOTNOTES
鐔　桜に鴛鴦　銘「寿景（花押）」　19世紀

Provenance: G.H. Naunton collection, no.2293, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl.70.
Purchased at Glendining & Co., London, 1965.

For the maker, a student of Tanaka Kiyotoshi, see Haynes, Index, no.H 10383.