Tsuba with dragons amid scrollwork
Details
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Title
Tsuba with dragons amid scrollwork
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Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
iron, with openwork decoration, gold, and gold nunome-zōgan decoration
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.4 x 6.9 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.10809
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Catalogue text
Two symmetrical ascending dragons amid a little scrollwork; between them, above and below the plain oblong seppadai, are two rosettes with sunk centres (settings for stones?); to right and left are two similar rosettes with palmette extensions above and below them; gold dot eyes; gold nunome on rosettes and palmette borders; kozuka-hole cut later.
Glossary of terms
nunome-zōgan
tsuba
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