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Tsuba with phoenix and clouds
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1860
- Material and technique
- gilt copper, with cloisonné enamel
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 4.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,
- 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.11164
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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. 1164
Glossary (3)
cloisonné, phoenix, 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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phoenix
Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
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tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Front with a "phoenix" (hōō) back with four purple and three green clouds, all on turquoise ground.
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