Tsuka with Autumn Flowers

Description The kashira is decorated with Chinese bell flowers, pampas grass and other flowers in relief. The decoration on the tsuka is incised pampas grass and chrysanthemums. The gold menuki are shaped like insects. 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