Wallace Collection Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is an art collection in London open to the public, housed at Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It comprises an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with important holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms and armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 30 galleries. It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left both it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir
Tsuba in the collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery the nickname "Kikubori-Chōbei" because of his skill carving chrysanthemums. Later he studied the work of Chizuka-Hisanari. Tsuba in the collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery There are 114 tsuba in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery collection, with works ranging from the Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period. The tsuba were part of a wider collection of weapons and sword guards donated by Councillor Davis Green in October 1924. Originally the collection belonged to a Mr. C.E.F.Griffiths and was loaned to the gallery. The collection was reclaimed by the family, it is presumed that Mr. Griffiths died, and put it