Round tsuba with flowers and a conch shell
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Title
Round tsuba with flowers and a conch shell
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Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
1st half of the 18th century -
Material and technique
nigurome, with cut and filed openwork decoration, the surface polished (migaki-ji), with punched ishime, and the whole inlaid with silver nail-heads in high relief (taka-zōgan); shakudō rim; eatang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth) -
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.10182
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Catalogue text
Polished surface with ishime graining; asymmetrically pierced with five devices (a chrysanthemum, a flower of five spiked petals, a conch shell, a cherry-blossom, and three holes forming with the kodzuka hole a large plum-blossom?); numerous silver "nail-heads"; shakudō rim. An early 18th century version of an older guard of yamagane.
Glossary of terms
shakudō
tsuba
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