Cuff links

Museum number:
9-12568a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210912568a@2cb
Alternate number:
3916 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Studs or buttons; Each of the two is a disk of dark metal, probably a copper alloy with relief decoration on one side and a gold stud on the other. The narrow edge is surrounded by a gold rim with an elaborate braided gold chain. (a) decoration depicts three frogs, two standing on rear legs, holding weapons, the third is kneeling. Two of the attached relief frogs appear to be of a copper alloy, the third of gold. Mountain in background. (b) is similar except two of the frogs are beating a third.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Copper (metal) and Gold (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cuff links, accession number 9-12568a,b, described as Studs or buttons; Each of the two is a disk of dark metal, probably a copper alloy with relief decoration on one side and a gold stud on the other. The narrow edge is surrounded by a gold rim with an elaborate braided gold chain. (a) decoration depicts three frogs, two standing on rear legs, holding weapons, the third is kneeling. Two of the attached relief frogs appear to be of a copper alloy, the third of gold. Mountain in background. (b) is similar except two of the frogs are beating a third.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cuff links, accession number 9-12568a,b, described as Studs or buttons; Each of the two is a disk of dark metal, probably a copper alloy with relief decoration on one side and a gold stud on the other. The narrow edge is surrounded by a gold rim with an elaborate braided gold chain. (a) decoration depicts three frogs, two standing on rear legs, holding weapons, the third is kneeling. Two of the attached relief frogs appear to be of a copper alloy, the third of gold. Mountain in background. (b) is similar except two of the frogs are beating a third.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cuff links, accession number 9-12568a,b, described as Studs or buttons; Each of the two is a disk of dark metal, probably a copper alloy with relief decoration on one side and a gold stud on the other. The narrow edge is surrounded by a gold rim with an elaborate braided gold chain. (a) decoration depicts three frogs, two standing on rear legs, holding weapons, the third is kneeling. Two of the attached relief frogs appear to be of a copper alloy, the third of gold. Mountain in background. (b) is similar except two of the frogs are beating a third.

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