Tobacco pipe with design of Chôhi and Gentoku (in Chinese, Zhang Fei and Xuande) with a scroll inscribed with their blood-oath; the bowl with a pine tree and halberd
Ichiyoken Toshiharu
(Japanese)
Mito School
(Japanese, 18th–20th centuries)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
Medium/TechniqueMain material: silver; wood stem; surface treatment: migaki-ji; other metals: gold, shakudo, shibuichi and copper; decorative technique: iroe takazogan
DimensionsOverall: 22.9 cm (9 in.)
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5531
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Not on viewClassificationsMetalwork
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Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid-19th century
mid to late 19th century
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
early to mid-19th century
early to mid-19th century
Late 18th–early 19th century
Tsuba with design of Chinese scholar playing the qin, with an attendant and three supplicant figures
Late 18th–early 19th century