The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
An unpublished catalogue of the A. H. Church collection of Japanese sword-guards (tsuba) by Albert James Koop.
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Tsuba with double-gourd plants
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Literature notes
Thin; pierced with two double-gourds in negative silhouette, the smaller below, the other above and to the left; the latter is plugged with sentoku nanako; the gourd-vine itself is rendered in champlevé enamel on each face, the leaves and stems dark green, the two flowers white, with gold-cloisonné enamel red for the centre of one; irregular ishime ground.
W. L. Behrens Collection, no. 1656, plate XXVIII. -
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, punched ishime surface, and green and white champlevé enamel decoration; one piercing plugged with sentoku, with punched nanako decoration obverse: inlaid with gold wire cloisonné enamel
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- Technique index
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cut,
- Object type index
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arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
- Accession no.
- EAX.11154
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Further reading
Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 1154
Glossary (3)
cloisonné, sentoku, tsuba
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cloisonné
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Thin; pierced with two double-gourds in negative silhouette, the smaller below, the other above and to the left; the latter is plugged with sentoku nanako; the gourd-vine itself is rendered in champlevé enamel on each face, the leaves and stems dark green, the two flowers white, with gold-cloisonné enamel red for the centre of one; irregular ishime ground.
W. L. Behrens Collection, no. 1656, plate XXVIII.
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