Tsuba with Chinese Gentlemen Viewing a Waterfall

ca.1800-1850 (late Edo)

7.6 cm 8.1 cm 0.4 cm

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This tsuba depicts four men in Chinese dress at the lower right observing a waterfall at the left. A blossoming tress occupies the right side. On the reverse, a single figure looks off into the distance.

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16938
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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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