Tsuba with flowering cherry branch
Details
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Title
Tsuba with flowering cherry branch
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Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1800 -
Material and technique
sentoku, with gold nunome-zōgan decoration, and with gold
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.2 x 6.8 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.10555
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Catalogue text
The surface represents the bark of a cherry-tree with three flowering twigs in low-relief; petals tipped with gold nunome; pistils and anthers given by gold dots; ryōhitsu of jagged outline.
E.Gilbertson Collection (?).
Nunome work on sentoku (or indeed on any soft metal) is by no means common.
Glossary of terms
nunome-zōgan
sentoku
tsuba
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