The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)

Unrecorded artist

ca. 1615–1868

Attribution

Unrecorded artist

Medium

Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper

Physical dimensions

29.100.1357a: L. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm) 29.100.1357b: L. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); W. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm) 29.100.1357c: L. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); W. 1/2 in. (1.3 cm); 29.100.1357d: L. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); W. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm); 29.100.1357e: L. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); W. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929