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Round tsuba with clematis and cricket
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- late 18th century - 1st half of the 19th century
- Material and technique
- iron, with punched ishime surface, and inlaid with shibuichi and gold
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,processed material › metal › alloy › silver alloy › shibuichi,
- Technique index
- 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.10402
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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. 402
Glossary (2)
shibuichi, tsuba
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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green 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)
Broad border of double-concave section, covered with trails of clematis in delicate, but sharp relief, on a fine stone-grain ground; this is separated by a "wire" edge from the field, which is of a plain matting pattern; an unusual feature for a Chōshū guard is the incrustation in full relief of shibuichi, with touches of gold, of a large cricket near the base.
Seymour Trower Collection, part of lot 1463.
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