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Round tsuba with trees and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- iron, with cut and filed openwork decoration, engraved decoration, inlaid with gold wire, and with gold wire cloisonné enamel
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › iron,processed material › metal › gold,
- 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.11173
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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. 1173
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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Publications online
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The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Narrow border enclosing a ring of size disks joined by slender bars; two are interrupted by the sd., two by the trifoliate kodzuka-hole; each is inlaid on both faces, within a narrow raised border, with a design in gold wire and gold-cloisonné enamel; these designs (maple-tree, plum-tree, narcissus, two fans, and scrolls) are repeated identically or in reverse at the back; edge inlaid with seven cloud-forms in gold wire (two wanting) on a ground of engraved fret.
Lucas Collection. Compare the [EAX.11172].
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