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Lot 285 - Auction 82

A KNIFE DISGUISED AS A FAN, SHIKOMI TESSENJapan, second half of the 19th century
Price realized:
360,00 EUR
Bids:
11

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Lot status:
Auction closed

Description

A KNIFE DISGUISED AS A FAN, SHIKOMI TESSEN
Japan, second half of the 19th century

Steel blade, handle and sheath in black lacquered wood with a gold decoration of sparrows and flowers.

30 cm long

Provenance: Italian private collection.

A knife very similar to this one - considered a weapon available to female warriors - is in the Stibbert Museum in Florence (Guerriere del Sol Levante, exhibition catalogue, Turin 2019, n. 26).

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