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Tsuka with Insects and Flowers
(Japanese Military Armor)
The kashira is decorated with spring flowers and two butterflies, which contrast to the autumn flowers and dragonflies on the matching fuchi. The copper menuki are in the shape of grasshoppers. This is part of a mounted set.
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Provenance
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Osaka
(Place of Origin)
Japan, Kyoto (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or 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.
51.1273.3B
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