Round iron tsuba within a square rim. A butterfly filling the whole round. Nanban. It's wings on both sides inlaid with small round buttons of mother of pearl enamel. No signature.
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Width: 7.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Enamel composed of mother-of-pearl
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.27-1912
Primary reference Number: 168977
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tsuba" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168977 Accessed: 2024-04-30 14:20:53
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168977
|title=Tsuba
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-30 14:20:53|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-168977
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
