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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Peony and Butterflies (菊に蝶図鐔)
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Copper, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), silver, gold, bronze
- Dimensions
- H. 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm); W. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); thickness 1/4 in. (0.6 cm); Wt. 4 oz. (113.4 g)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Dated
- 19th century
- Pixels
- 3000 × 4000
- SHA-256
- 3c70c0eccaf8dd0a…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Peony and Butterflies (菊に蝶図鐔). 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.