East Asia, Japan, Edo to Meiji period, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A collection of brass and copper cast menuki, sword grip ornaments, with repousse motifs and attachment pins on the verso, and a medallion disc – 15 pieces total. This is a great variety of types - birds, leafy fruit branches, horses, Buddha or Immortal figures, and a woman under a blossoming branch. Menuki are petite attachments meant to be displayed behind the cotton handle wrappings of a traditional Japanese sword with one on each side, and there are 4 matching pairs of these ornaments in this group. Size of medallion: 1.55" Diameter (3.9 cm)

Provenance: private Matrisciano collection, Thousand Oaks, California, USA, before 2002; ex-Malter Galleries, Encino, California, USA

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Bending and indentations. Losses to peripheries and larges loss to medallion disc, and missing pins on several. Softening of details and heavy dark patina and toning.