Keywords: Japanese - Tsuba with a Folding Screen and Clouds - Walters 51155 - Back.jpg At the upper right and lower left of the tsuba two folding screens can be seen On the front of the tsuba the upper screen depicts hawks and paulownia The lower screen has a floral bouquet including peonies On the back the screen in the upper right depicts several flowers The pattern of the screen on the lower left seems to be the back side of the screen On both sides the area between the two screens is filled with clouds patterned in gold enamel date copper alloy gold cm 7 8 7 6 0 39 accession number 51 155 16950 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters none The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Japan Idea Art and Domestic Life in Victorian America Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford 1990 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |