Production: Unknown
Squarish lacquer tsuba. On one side a shime and a cray fish on a laurel leaf (the three being new year's day decorations), gold zogan and enamel. On the other side three storks flying a tortoise (tailed) and a young pine tree, all enamel. No inscription.
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 8 cm
Width: 7.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.115-1912
Primary reference Number: 169065
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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