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Tsuba with grape vine

  • Details

    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Artist/maker
    Umetada School (active 16th century - 19th century) (armourer)
    Material and technique
    copper, inlaid with gold and silver; inlay engraved; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
    Dimensions
    8.3 x 8.2 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    gold,
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10225
  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 225

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tsuba

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    • currently in research collection

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