Pair 19c Japanese sword MENUKI prancing HORSES

Title: 19c Japanese sword MENUKI HORSE Origin: Japanese Description: Single 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting a prancing horse wearing rich trappings and saddle. Elegant design in Japanese

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting two groups of boys at play. Superb quality work - see their faces, detailing of clothing and toys. Gold, silver and copper inlays, in excelle

Pair of 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting: 1. Kanzan and Jittoku reading an open scroll, with Jittoku’s broom on the ground behind them. 2. A landscape in scholar’s taste with

Pair of early 19th century good size Japanese sword menuki each depicting a riding crop - the one with dark patina with abumi (stirrup), the gilded one with a long tailed bird on a wooden bucket. Supe

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki each depicting a pair of cranes wading through a stream with water plants. Elegant design, bronze with gilding and silver inlays, overall in great cond

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting ikebana arrangements containing fruits on branches on bed of wide reeds, all tied with ribbons. Elegant design in Japanese taste, extraordina

Pair of 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting rice plants with stalks. Pleasant design, bronze with light brown patina, gilding, in great condition. Length 1 11/16 inches. Reserve: $150.00 Ship

Single 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting a horse wearing rich trappings and standing under a wide pine tree. Elegant design in Japanese taste, excellent work with superb detailing, bronze w

Single early 19th century menuki - Japanese sword fitting - depicting two galloping horses, one done in brown patina, the other gilded. Elegant design, crisp casting and detailing, some obvious age we

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting cranes in different attitudes in flight above waves. Elegant design, bronze with brown patina, gilding, overall in very good condition, some

Pair of 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting pairs of monkeys floating on a log among waves. Very good work with great detailing, bronze with gilding, in great condition. Length 1 11/16 inches

Group of eighteen, antique Japanese menuki (sword hilt ornaments), in bronze and other metals, including two matched pairs; depicting dragons, lions, tigers, birds, horses and a minogame; Prov

Rare single 19th century Goto School menuki (Japanese sword fitting) depicting a dragon and a leopard. Leopards are very rare in Japanese art, and the face of this one looks more like that of a tiger

Single 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting a water buffalo, its head lowered menacingly. Elegant design in Japanese taste, excellent work with superb detailing, bronze with silver overlay and

19th century Japanese sword menuki of a walking peasant with two objects - one in his back, the other in his hands, currently mounted as a pin and a pendant. Very clever design, superb detailing - see

Title: 19c Japanese sword MENUKI RESTING PEASANT with basket Origin: Japanese Description: Single 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting a seated peasant wearing a rain hat and leaning against a

Single 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting three gnarled pines. Elegant design in Japanese taste, beautiful detailing, bronze with brown patina, in great condition. Length 1 3/4 inches. Shipp

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting shishi in different attitudes frolicking among flowering peonies. Wonderful design and detailing, gilding to the shishi, and silvering to the

19th century solid gold Japanese sword menuki in a form of running Inari fox holding a rice stalk in its mouth, and with a key to a store room under its hind legs. Foxes in their benevolent manifestat

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting richly decorated quivers full of arrows. Very clever design, great detailing (see silver highlights on the feathers of arrows and scrolling d

Pair of early 19th century good size Japanese sword menuki each depicting an undulating dragon in different attitude. Excellent design, bronze with fire gilding, superb casting and detailing, beautifu

Pair of good size early 19th century Japanese sword menuki depicting Seiobo with an attendant, and Tobosaku holding a peach in his hands. Seiobo is the Chinese Queen of the Fairies, with Peach of Immo

19th century Japanese kashira (metal pommel at the end of the hilt of a sword) with multimetal inlays depicting Gentoku riding through the waters of the river Dankei on his horse Tokiro while escaping

15 Pairs of Japanese Mixed Metal and Gilt Menuki Sword Fittings. Together with 6 more assorted menuki. Size: Lengths ranging from .5'' (1 cm) to 2'' (5 cm). Provenance: Sylvia and Philip Chaplain Coll