A Kazari-dachi Koshirae (set of mounts)


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryThe gilt-copper saya finished in a "cat-scratch" pattern and mounted with gilt-copper ashi-kanamono, semegane and sayajiri in openwork with scrolling vines and decorated with colored stones, the tip of the sayajiri carved with scrolling vines in low relief, the tsuka wrapped with even-grained ray skin and mounted with gilt-copper chrysanthemum openwork menuki and fitted with a kashira worked to match the saya hardware and carved on the end and on the fuchi with scrolling vines in low relief; the shitogi tsuba gilt-copper with scrolling vines in low relief; hangers with orange silk and printed doe skinWith a lacquered wood storage box 35 1/2in (90.1cm) long