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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Swords and Related: Pre 1900: Item # 1485943

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Dmitry Levit Asian Art
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Cambridge, MA 02139
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19th century Edo period Goto school Japanese kashira (metal pommel at the end of the hilt of a sword) with multimetal relief inlays depicting ra bird on a flowering branch. Superb quality crisp work, multiple inlays of copper, silver, shakudo and gold, is excellent condition. Finely textured ground called nanako, which means “fish-eggs” as it resembles fine rows of caviar. Extraordinary piece of Japanese metalwork. Length 1.4 inches.