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Tsuba with blossoming plum tree
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- sentoku, with cut and filed openwork decoration, and red and yellow champlevé enamel decoration; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 8.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › sentoku,
- 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.11155
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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. 1155
Glossary (2)
sentoku, tsuba
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sentoku
A kind of brass made from an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin.
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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)
Roughly circular; modelled in openwork as a gnarled old plum-tree, with numerous large blossoms, mostly enamelled red with yellow centres.
Formerly in the collection of M. B. Huish; exhibited by him at the Japan Society's Loan Exhibition, London, 1905, no.S.7, plate 25; later in the Behrens Collection, no.1680, plate XXX.
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