Sword Guard (Tsuba)

Brown metal object with rounded rectangular shape and wavy top edge. The object is brown with darker brown spots and has a teardrop-shaped cutout in the center and a more rounded cutout on the left side. There are small gold inlays present. The object depicts a dragonfly on the bottom right side and stems on the top left. It is symmetrical with a horizontal orientation. The background is light gray. This object is a Sword Guard (Tsuba) by an unknown artist.