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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Biting Lion Heads (<i>Shikami</i>) and Arabesques (獅噛唐草図南蛮鐔)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Iron, gold, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>)
- Dimensions
- H. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); W. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 4.6 oz. (130.4 g)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Dated
- 19th century
- Pixels
- 3000 × 4000
- SHA-256
- f8261707fe58e64b…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Biting Lion Heads (<i>Shikami</i>) and Arabesques (獅噛唐草図南蛮鐔). 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.