Tsuka with Peacocks and Peony

Description The kashira, like the matching fuchi, depicted a peony flower and a rock. One menuki is shaped like a peacock and is unusually long. The other menuki is in the shape of a peahen with a peony flower. This is part of a mounted set.

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

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters