Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
jug / Daniel O'Connell, 1844
Colourless mould-blown glass jug with eight ribs, wide mouth, arch and angle rim with broad lip and handle. Inscribed "This jug was used at the table of O'Connell and his fellow prisoners during our unjust captivity in Richmond Bridewell in 1844. Thos. Matt. Ray - one of the state prisoners."
sword hilt /
Sword hilt, ivory carved with foliage and animals (formerly encrusted with gold and jewels), from an ancient tomb at Kourm. Old Persian.
scabbard ornament /
Scabbard ornament, ivory; carved with foliage and animals; formerly encrusted with gold and jewels; from an ancient tomb at Kourm. Old Persian.
dhal /
Shield (Dhal), iron inlaid with gold with four raised bosses and panels of inscriptions, padded with velvet at back and with two velvet straps. Modern Indian (Punjab).
tsuba /
Sword guard or tsuba, iron. Japanese. No. 471. Quatrefoils shaped (Moko shaped). Iron. Design of a boat. Carved in high relief. IROE.Two small openings. Iron Inlaid with several alloys on the base.
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Sword guard or tsuba, iron. Japanese. Quatrefoils shaped (Moko shaped). Iron ground and pasted brass. Two small openings (Hitsuana). '470'.
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Sword guard or tsuba, iron. Japanese, with a dragon. Circle-shaped. Iron, carved in high relief. Gilt inlaid. '405'.
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Sword-guard or tsuba, iron, Japanese, quatrafoil, Moko-shaped with tortoises. Iron, carved in high relief. IROE (inlaid with several alloys on the base). '413'.
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Sword guard, bronze. Japanese. NANAKO: One of the carving metals technique. Looks like fish eggs or drops on the metal; IROE: Inlaid with several alloys on the base. Quatrefoil shaped. An alloy of copper. Nanako ground. Decorated bean throwing ceremony (3rd of Feb.). Sake cup and straw festoons in...
tsuba /
Sword guard or tsuba, iron. Japanese. No. 407, with a dragon. Oval-shaped. Iron; carved in high relief + IROE (inlaid with several alloys on the base).
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Sword guard or tsuba, iron. Japanese. No. 438, with a Japanese apricot tree and a Japanese nightingale. Oval shaped, carved in high relief, openworked with a cross.
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Sword-guard with a stream. Round-shaped, iron, inlaid silver. No. 402.
tsuba /
No. 426. Sword-guard or tsuba, iron, Japanese, with a dragon. Quatrafoil shaped. Moko-shaped (quatrefoil shaped), inlaid and carved in high relief, brass.
tsuba /
Sword-guard, openworked with fans. Round-shaped, inlaid brass with arabesque chrysanthemums. No. 417.
tsuba /
Swordguard or tsuba. Rounded square shape. SHIBUCHI (this is one of the japanese alloy methods; an alloy of copper against one silver). Design of hunting on the horse. Shishiaibori (carved outside of design and make design bold relief). Inlaid work. IROE. No. 494.
priming horn /
Priming horn. Made from a Boar's tusk. Triangular in section carved in high relief on the three sides (two scenes) with Hunting scenes. The end terminating in a kind of hound's head. German, 17th century.
tsuba /
No. 435. Sword-guard or tsuba. Openworked, with a dragon.
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No. 464. Round-shaped. Iron. Openwork - design of reed leaves and a boat. Two small openings (Hitsuana).
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No. 429. Sword-guard or tsuba, openworked, with fern. Round-shaped. Edge with a rope chain pattern. Openworked, iron.