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Tsuba with plum blossoms, pine needles, and dewdrops
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1800
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, and inlaid with gold, silver, pearl shell, and copper
- Dimensions
- 7.6 x 7.4 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō,processed material › metal › gold,organic › animal › shell › pearlshell
- 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.10903
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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. 903
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)
The lower two-thirds of each face is occupied by a score or so of plum-blossoms treated in many different ways, in relief and incrustation of gold and silver, with some inlay of pearl-shell; amongst them are scattered pine-needles in copper and tinted gold, and silver dots for dewdrops.
A piece of exceptionally fine workmanship, bought at Ishiguro (according to the MS. Catalogue, although I have been unable to identify this place-name). Curiously enough, it might quite conceivably by Ishiguro work (Group LI), the name here being, of course, a surname.
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