Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs

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Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs

Japanese
possibly Edo period, 1603–1868
1998-178

Information

Title
Swordguard with lions and bamboo designs
Medium
Metal and gilding
Dimensions
h. 8.6 cm., w. 8.0 cm., d. 0.6 cm. (3 3/8 x 3 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Rose Fine Heller, in memory of her husband, Ernest S. Heller, Class of 1922
Object Number
1998-178
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
tsuba, metalworking
Materials
metal
Techniques
gilding
Subject
swordsmiths, bamboo, wave pattern, lions

–1998 Rose Fine Heller (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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