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Tsuba with bottle gourds
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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 copper; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper obverse: with gold; seppadai plugged with shakudō reverse: with engraved decoration; seppadai plugged with white metal
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 6.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,
- Technique index
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processed material › metal › gold,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.10585
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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. 585
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
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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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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Cupped; an openwork guard plugged with soft metals; two bottle-gourds with leaves and tendrils, one leaf encrusted on each face in copper; the details are lightly modelled on the convex front and engraved on the concave back; the large openings to right and left of the seppadai are filled with plain shakudō backed by striated white metal; on the front of the leaves are several dewdrops in gold.
A remarkable piece.
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