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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Sword-hilt with Phoenix Head Ring Pommel

500s

Japan, Kofun period

(300–710 CE)
gilt bronze
Overall: 7.6 x 6.6 cm (3 x 2 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1990.83
Location: Not on view
  • Mr. Saburo Takahashi
    (Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.)
  • Turner, Evan H. “Acquisitions: 1990.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (February 1991): 30–45. Reproduced: p. 32, no. 86 www.jstor.org
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