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Tsuba with anchor amid waves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and inlaid with brass and gold obverse: inlaid with silver
- Dimensions
- 8.7 x 8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › brass,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11093
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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. 1093
Glossary
tsuba
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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)
Each face is modelled in sharp relief with waves, above which is suspended an anchor with its four flukes just awash; the common eye of the two anchors is in openwork at the upper edge and through it passes the false roped "rim" of the guard; the flukes are encrusted with brass and gold and are represented as somewhat damaged, with adherent shells, etc.; on the front is also a flying egret in silver incrustation with gold beak and legs.
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