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Mokkō-shaped tsuba with bottle gourd vines
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1700
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,
- 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.10750
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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. 750
Glossary (2)
nunome-zōgan, tsuba
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nunome-zōgan
Decorative application of metal sheeting (generally of gold or silver) where the iron ground is first cross-hatched and the metal burnished on.
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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)
Mokkō; thickened towards the edge; modelled completely in the round as a tangled mass of bottle-gourd vines, the small fruits and many of the leaves covered with tinted gold nunome.
Somewhat resembles in design a smaller guard, also of mokkō shape, acquired by Mr. C.P.Peak at the Oscar Björck Sale (Glendinings, Jan.1923, lot 296), illustrated on plate VII of the sale catalogue. There, however, the venation of the leaves is in gold inlay, not nunome.
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