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Tsuba with 'long life' character, butterfly, and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- obverse and reverse: copper; rim with green cloisonné enamel obverse: with chased decoration, and white enamel decoration reverse: with green champlevé enamel decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 6.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- 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.11145
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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. 1145
Glossary (2)
cloisonné, 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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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)
The front boldly chased as basketwork with a large raised seal-character (ju, "long life") enamelled in dirty white; the back with a butterfly and leaves in champlevé enamel, chiefly green, and two patches of basketwork; the edge cloisonné-enamelled green to represent a bamboo-stem.
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