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Creative Commons License
Tsuba with Autumn Grasses with Spider and Butterflies
(Japanese Military Armor)
On the front of this tsuba are various autumn flowers, including chrysanthemums, maiden flower, arrowroot, and pampas grass. On the reverse is a spider in a web in the upper left. Butterflies are on the edge at the right and top.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisiton unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo)
(Place of Origin)
Japan, Kyoto (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.401