Tsuba with Autumn Flowers

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This tsuba is filled with autumn flowers, including chrysanthemums, patrinia and Chinese bellflowers. The hole of the hair pick has been plugged with a gold alloy.

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

Japanese (Artist)

Period

17th century (Muromachi)

Medium

shakudo with gold and silver
(Arms & Armor)

Accession Number

51.294

Measurements

2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View