Tsuba with Chinese Lantern Plants

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description Several Chinese lantern plants ("hôzuki") and a lady bug decorate this tsuba. Chinese lanterns are assocaited with summer. This is part of a mounted set of sword fittings all depicting Chinese lanterns.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Sano School (Artist)

Period

19th century (Edo)

Medium

shakudo, coral, gold, mother-of-pearl dust
(Arms & Armor)

Accession Number

51.1265.2

Measurements

H: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View