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Tsuba with chrysanthemum flower and animals

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Material and technique
    iron centre; silver border and edge, with punched ishime surface; hammered-up edge, with polished surface (migaki-ji); iron and silver ground with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in gold, iron, shibuichi, and silver; shakudō ryōhitsu plugs; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper, with punched ishime surface
    Dimensions
    8.4 x 8.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    iron,
    silver,
    gold
    Technique index
    shibuichi,
    shibuichi,
    shakudō,
    copper,
    forged,
    more
    Object type index
    tsuba
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Sir Arthur H. Church, 1915.
    Accession no.
    EAX.11066

  • Further reading

    Koop, Albert James, The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba), 3 vols (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1929), no. 1066

Glossary (3)

shakudō, shibuichi, tsuba

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The A.H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba) by Albert James Koop

    The A. H. Church Collection of Japanese Sword-Guards (Tsuba)

    The iron centre is in the form of a chrysanthemum flower modelled with three layers of florets on the front, two layers (and two leaves [in shibuichi incrustation]) on the back; the wide silver border is concave and covered with rough ishime, though its hammered-up edge is polished; on one or both of these parts are encrusted a cobweb in gold, a ladybird in iron, a mantis and a butterfly in shibuichi, and another butterfly in silver, all with gold details; rh. plugged with shakudō vertically striated; specially made tang-hole plugs of ishime surface. Signed: Konkwan (as the last [EAX.11065]) with kakihan [Figure].

    Perhaps a genuine work by the master.

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