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Tsuba with scrolls and fūchō, or birds or paradisefront

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Tsuba with scrolls and fūchō, or birds or paradise

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1800
    Material and technique
    copper and shakudō, with gilding; shakudō rim, wrapped with gold foil
    Dimensions
    7.5 x 7.3 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    copper,
    shakudō,
    gold
    Technique index
    forged,
    gilded
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.10906

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 906

Glossary (2)

shakudō, tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    The field is of copper covered with scrolls and tiny chrysanthemum badges in high sharp relief; the wide border of shakudō has in similar technique a way stem with six-petalled flowers and small gilt leaves, interrupted by four (at the back two) "birds-of-paradise", fūchō; a slender raised edging runs around each flank of the border, the outer one being wrapped with gold foil.

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