Tsuba with 'stick-lac' decoration and monkeys amid rocks

Details

• Title

  Tsuba with 'stick-lac' decoration and monkeys amid rocks

• Associated place

  Asia › Japan (place of creation)

• Date

  1st half of the 18th century

• Material and technique

  iron, with hammered-up edge, the ground inlaid with metal ('stick-lac' gomoku-zōgan), and with copper and gilt copper; shibuichi kozuka-hole rim; tang-hole plugged with soft metal, probably copper

• Material index

  processed material › metal › iron;

  processed material › metal › copper;

  processed material › metal › gold;

  processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi

• Technique index

  forged;

  hammered;

  covered › inlaid;

  covered › metallized › gilded;

  filled › plugged

• Object type

  arms/armour › koshirae › kodogu › tsuba

• Dimensions

  7.2 x 6.5 x 0.5 cm (height x width x depth)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Bequeathed by Dame Jemima Church, in accordance with the wishes of her Husband, Sir Arthur H. Church, 1929.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EAX.10177

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