Lot Details
Lot 130
Two Good Goto Shakudo Nanako Kozuka
19th Century, the first signed Mitsuaki
One with a gilt, 'cat-scratched' frame and decorated in shaludo and gold with a branch of botan and a paper slip signed Mitsuaki-; blade carved with a dragon/ken horimono, signed Tadatsune. One with a shakudo frame and decorated in shakudo and gold with a staked chrysanthemum, unsigned; blade with a dragon/ken horimono, unsigned.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for $1,200 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Mitsuaki was the go of Goto Hojo (died 1856), sixteenth and last Master of the Goto Shirobei line. His work is more typically Goto than that of Shinjo (died 1834) or Keijo (died 1804), the fourteenth and fifteenth Masters. After his death, there was a scramble to find a successor by Goto Ichijo who proposed two of his own students. Since Hojo never appointed anyone as a worthy successor, no seventeenth Master has ever been recognized. Desipte his remarkable ability as an artisan, he is less well known for some less-than-honorable activity, namely creating fakes of earlier Masters or falsely attesting works to earlier Masters so that almost all works found with his attribution should be considered suspect.
Some negligible dents and scratches to the back of the shakudo frame; blades in good state.
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Some negligible dents and scratches to the back of the shakudo frame; blades in good state.
Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.
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