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Saddle (Kura) with Stylized Flowers, Saddle: Gold maki-e with black lacquer decoration:<br/>Pommel: lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e on black ground; seat: nashiji (“pear-skin” ground), Japan
Japan
Saddle: Muromachi period (1392–1573), dated 1491 (Entoku 3); lacquer decoration: Edo period (1615–1868), 17th century
Sword pommel, Jade (nephrite), China
China
2nd century BCE
Sword Pommel, Copper alloy inlaid with silver wire and niello on<br/>an iron core, Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
late 9th century
Sword Pommel, Copper alloy, enamel, probably French
probably French
12th–13th century
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira), Ishiguro Koreyoshi  Japanese, Gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper, Japanese
Fittings maker Inscribed by Ishiguro Koreyoshi
19th century
Pommel Plate, Iron, gold, silver, Eastern Tibetan or Chinese
Eastern Tibetan or Chinese
possibly 17th–18th century
Pommel Plate, Jörg Sorg the Younger  German, Steel, gold, German, Augsburg
Etcher Attributed to Jörg Sorg the Younger
ca. 1550
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira), Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver, copper, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), Japanese
Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira), Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, Japanese
Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira), Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, Japanese
Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira), Copper, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), Japanese
Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century

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