Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Tsuka with Sparrows and Quail
ca. 1860 (Edo)
green lacquer, silver, gold, shakudo, copper alloy, ray skin
(Japanese Military Armor)
(Japanese Military Armor)
The two menuki on this tsuka are in the shape of groups of sparrows in flight. The kashira is decorated with a quail standing under a stalk of millet. This is part of a mounted set.
Inscription
Provenance
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Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 4 3/4 in. (12 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.
51.1183.2B