Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting a dove sitting on a cryptomeria tree
Details
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Title
Mokkō-shaped tsuba depicting a dove sitting on a cryptomeria tree
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Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1850 -
Material and technique
iron, with iro-e zōgan (multi-metal inlay) decoration in silver, gold, and shibuichi; shakudō ryōhitsu plugs
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.1 x 8.3 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Dame Jemima Church, in accordance with the wishes of her Husband, Sir Arthur H. Church, 1929.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.11236
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Catalogue text
Faint-mokkō; "wire" edge; flat relief modelling of a cryptomeria tree and cloud-wrack; on a branch sits a dove in bold iroye incrustation; about the trunk is a shime-nawa decoration in gold and silver; above is the sun's disk in gold; at the back, in shibuichi, the corner of a torii and the tops of other trees; rh. plugged with diagonally striated shakudō. Signed: Tsunemasa [Japanese text] with kakihan [Figure]. (Unrecorded.)
Competent work, but uninspired.
Glossary of terms
shakudō
shibuichi
tsuba
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