Browse: 1142 objects
Tsuba depicting a drake and duck by a frozen pool
-
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- shakudō, with polished surface (migaki-ji), and iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 5.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
-
processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shakudō
- Technique index
- Object type index
-
arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
- Accession no.
- EAX.11049
-
Further reading
Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 1049
Glossary (2)
shakudō, tsuba
-
shakudō
alloy of copper and gold, patinated to a dark blue-black colour
-
tsuba
Japanese sword guard.
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)
Oval, with symmetrically multilobate edge, partly roped; archaistically irregular ground, highly polished; in iroye incrustation and inlay a mandarin drake and duck by a frozen pool (cracked ice) under the half-visible full moon; at the back, low herbage with snow-patches and more cracked ice.
The attempt to recall an archaic piece extends even to the tang-hole, the sides of which have been unnecessarily dented.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum