Oldest piece of Japanese art

[Bugyotsuji]

Anyone have old F/K, menuki etc

Also expected some old pottery

Haha, Grev, well you asked for it. This is 須恵器 Sue Pottery, a precursor to Bizen ware. A friend who works in the construction industry found this during building work in the main park of our city. Nara/Heian? A 平瓶 Heihei. The neck is offset, for use as a water/sake vessel?

[Iekatsu]

There are some great fittings in this thread, three of mine that would be categorised as Kagami-shi.

[Tim Evans]

Small cast bronze tsuba of ascending and descending dragons. These are usually classed as kagamishi, but who knows who made them. Dating on these early cast tsuba is speculative, but this one was tagged as Nambokucho period in the 2019 KTK catalog. Photo credit: RKG.

 

 

 

Tim

[vajo]

Not the oldest but a nice Kagamishi which i love.

 

 

(RKG pictures)

[kissakai]

As with the other stuff that is a great tsuba

[Bernard]

 Anyone have old F/K, menuki etc

Also expected some old pottery

 

Here is an old pottery : an oribe chaire, 10 cm. high, 16/17th century.

 

Bernard D