Hand guard

Hand guard

AK-MAK-1120

Ovale tsuba met gelobde rand; opengewerkte versiering van twee tijgers ter weerszijden van een vlammend juweel; de rand is bedekt met goud inlegwerk (nunome-zogan).

• anonymous (possibly), Hizen
• anonymous (possibly), China

1600 - 1900

height 7.7 cm x width 7.2 cm

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Public domain

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword-mounts : a descriptive catalogue of the collection of J. C. Hawkshaw, Esq., M.A., of Hollycombe, Liphook , Londen 1910, cat.nr. 350 (pl. X t.o.v. p. 32).

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20023561