Tsuba with a Folding Screen and Clouds

Description At the upper right and lower left of the tsuba two folding screens can be seen. On the front of the tsuba, the upper screen depicts hawks and paulownia. The lower screen has a floral bouquet, including peonies. On the back, the screen in the upper right depicts several flowers. The pattern of the screen on the lower left seems to be the back side of the screen. On both sides, the area between the two screens is filled with clouds patterned in gold enamel.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/18/1984	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
• The Japan Idea: Art and Domestic Life in Victorian America. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. 1990.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters