Tsuba with a Rat and a Chinese Hot Pepper

Description At the lower right edge of this tsuba, a silver rat holds a Chinese hot pepper. The body is made of red coral and the stem is gold. On the lower left of the back is a second pepper made in the same fashion.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters