Hand guard with cherry blossom and rafts

Hand guard with cherry blossom and rafts

AK-MAK-1078

Ovale tsuba met opengewerkte voorstelling in reliëf van kersebloesems op vlotten; details ingelegd in goud (nunome-zogan); gesigneerd 'shōhakudō sunagawa masayoshi', cursieve handtekening (kaō).

signature: ‘松柏堂砂川正吉 [花押]’

Sunagawa Masayoshi, Japan

c. 1750 - c. 1800

height 7.5 cm x width 7.1 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

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