Smallsword with Scabbard

Date

ca. 1730

Type

Smallsword with scabbard

Medium

Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, steel, wood, leather, textile

Department

Arms and Armor

Culture

Japanese, possibly Dejima, for the Western market

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

26.145.327a, b

Credit

Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926