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Tsuba: MAR.ARM.O.178-1912

Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Squarish iron tsuba with rounded corners. Edge nunome zogan; ishime. View, shibuichi, through a marumado showing the top of a silver plum tree, some shakudo buds flying, all in the light of the gold moon breaking through the clouds. Also a square shibuichi medallion decorated with flowers, in shakudo ,silver and gold. On the other side shakudo fan shaped (uyi gata) deeply inset, with peony flowers, gilt ukibon, also deeply unset hyotan gata gold and with the artists name engraved on it. Signature: Tsuchiya Haruchika

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Materials used in production

Shibuichi
Shakudo
Iron
Gilt
Gold
Silver

Techniques used in production

Gilding

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.178-1912
Primary reference Number: 169128
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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