Tsuba with Herons in a Lotus Pond

19th century (?) (Edo)

7 cm 7.5 cm

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This tsuba is a copy of a design repeatedly made by Ôtsuki Mitsuhiro and his father, including one in the Walters collection (see Walters 51.137). Inscriptions on the original tsubas say that the design is after one by the 10th-century Chinese painter Hsu Hsi. This may be a re...

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