Hand guard
Also titled Zwaardstootplaat
1600 - 1900
- Medium
- iron (metal), gold (metal), silver (metal)
- Classification
- tsuba
- Dimensions
- height 10.3 cm x width 9.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Tsuba with a phoenix and plant design. 17th century; signed: Umetada Myôju (1559 - 1631); iron, gold, silver.
