Tsuka with Flowers Birds

1st half 19th century (?) (late Edo) L: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) Citation Source image

Each of the menuki is in the shape of a flower and leaves. On the kashira, an owl sits in branches and a sparrow is in flight. This is part of a mounted set.

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