Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Swallowtail Butterflies (揚羽蝶図鐔)

Medium

Copper-silver alloy shibuichi), bronze, gold

Dimensions

H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); W. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 3.4 oz. (96.4 g)

Classification

Sword Furniture-Tsuba

Culture

Japanese

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891

Accession Number

91.1.809

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