Roundish shakudo tsuba. The whole surface on both sides covered with a network of regularly intersecting circles of shell inlaid in the metal. No inscription
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Inlay composed of shell
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.144-1912
Primary reference Number: 169094
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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