Tsuba with Monkeys

1764-1837 (Edo)

7.4 cm 7.8 cm 0.5 cm

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On the right side of this tsuba are four monkeys grooming each other. An adult holds a young monkey at the rear of the grouping. In the front, another young monkey hangs upside down from the arm of the second adult. The reverse shows an overhanging rock on the right with a str...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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