Tsuka with Dragonflies and Swallows

Description The menuki are dragonflies with shakudo bodies and gold wings. Two swallows on a branch and one in flight decorate the kashira. 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