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Tsuba with wild geese and shells
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- copper, with cut and filed openwork decoration, punched decoration, inlaid with gold wire cloisonné enamel, and with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in shakudō, silver, and gold; shakudō rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- 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.11171
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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. 1171
Glossary (3)
cloisonné, shakudō, 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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shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
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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)
Pierced on the right with a cruciform device; encrusted on the front with three flying wild-geese in shakudō, also shells and water in silver, shakudō, gold, and gold-cloisonné enamel; at the back, two geese (silver) and fewer shells; ground of Amida-yasurime (close radial striations), with wavy lines of dots between; shakudō rim.
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