Hand guard with cherry blossom and rafts, Sunagawa Masayoshi, c. 1750 - c. 1800

Identification

Title(s)

Hand guard with cherry blossom and rafts

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-1078

Inscriptions / marks

signature: ‘松柏堂砂川正吉 [花押]’

Description

Ovale tsuba met opengewerkte voorstelling in reliëf van kersebloesems op vlotten; details ingelegd in goud (nunome-zogan); gesigneerd 'shōhakudō sunagawa masayoshi', cursieve handtekening (kaō).

Creation

Artist

Sunagawa Masayoshi

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1750 - c. 1800

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

Measurements

height 7.5 cm × width 7.1 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 125, cat.nr. 135

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1062

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