Tsuba made from yellow bronze with silver inlaid grid pattern and a large butterfly in high relief made from shakudō. On the back, grid pattern in flat gold inlay.
Featured on PDR in the collection Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)
In the mid-1890s, after health problems forced him to give up landscape painting, Georg Oeder (b. Aachen, Germany, 1846) threw himself into collecting Japanese art and artifacts — above all ukiyo-e prints and sword guards (tsuba). His collection of tsuba, which was one of the most extensive in the world at the time, was photographed and printed in a catalogue published in 1916. This catalogue is now almost all that remains of Oeder’s collection, most of which was auctioned off or lost after his death in 1931.
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Tsuba made from yellow bronze with silver inlaid grid pattern and a large butterfly in high shakudō relief.
Artist
Date
1916
From
Japanische Stichblätter und Schwertzieraten
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