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Tsuba with gourd vine and fruits
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Artist/maker
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Shōami School (active 1601 - 1909) (armourer)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, and with gold-veined shakudō, copper, and silver; border, with punched decoration, plated in gold, and inlaid with silver; gilt copper kōgai-hole plug, with nekogaki engraving; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,covered › metallized › plated,
- 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.10294
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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. 294
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Very thick border of circular section with gourd-vine in relief on a billet-punched ground; the whole of this border is richly plated with gold; five of the spherical fruits being in silver; over the field, of fine nanako surface, run four trails of the vine, with some of the leaves in gold-veined shakudō and some of the fruits in copper or silver; kōgai-hole plugged with "cat-scratched" copper-gilt, the pattern apparently representing a garden-fence.
De Ath Collection, lot no.450.
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