Tsuba with plum blossoms, pine needles, and dewdrops

Title

Tsuba with plum blossoms, pine needles, and dewdrops
Associated place

Japan (place of creation)
Date

c. 1800
Material and technique

shakudō, with punched nanako decoration, and inlaid with gold, silver, pearl shell, and copper
Material index

shakudo;

gold;

silver;

copper;

pearlshell
Technique index

forged;

punched;

inlaid
Object type

tsuba
Dimensions

7.6 x 7.4 cm (height x width)
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.10903

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Catalogue text

The lower two-thirds of each face is occupied by a score or so of plum-blossoms treated in many different ways, in relief and incrustation of gold and silver, with some inlay of pearl-shell; amongst them are scattered pine-needles in copper and tinted gold, and silver dots for dewdrops.

A piece of exceptionally fine workmanship, bought at Ishiguro (according to the MS. Catalogue, although I have been unable to identify this place-name). Curiously enough, it might quite conceivably by Ishiguro work (Group LI), the name here being, of course, a surname.

shakudō

tsuba

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