Tsuba with Chrysanthemums

Description This tsuba is decorated with gold and copper chrysanthemums, symbols of autumn. Six chrysanthemums, along with leaves and buds, adorn the front. On the reverse are three additional blossoms along the left edge.

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.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters