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A BRONZE OKIMONO OF RYUJIN Compare a bronze group by the same artist A BRONZE OKIMONO OF AN EAGLE
(THE DRAGON KING OF THE SEA) in the Khalili collection depicting the sea- By Kaneya, Meiji era (1868-1912),
By Otake Norikuni, god Haneakarutama (essentially, the purely late 19th century
Meiji era (1868-1912), 1880s Japanese equivalent of Ryujin) presenting the Naturalistically rendered, fixed on a bronze
Constructed in three separate sections, jewel to Susanoo, illustrated in Oliver Impey stand modelled as a rocky outcrop, its wings
Ryujin, wearing an elaborate helmet and Malcolm Fairley, The Nasser D. Khalili outstretched preparing for flight, its legs
surmounted by a dragon and standing Collection of Japanese Art, vol.2, Metalwork, bronze gilt with shakudo talons, the beak of
barefoot with his hands grasping a (missing) London, The Kibo Foundation, 1995, cat. shakudo, the eyes of shakudo and gilt bronze;
tide-controlling tama (sacred jewel) on a no.98; for a related version by Oshima Joun signed beneath its tail in an oval reserve in
winged dragon-fish resting on spumy waves, and others, made for the Second Naikoku hiragana script Kaneya saku.
set on a rectangular plinth with corner Kangyo Hakurankai (Domestic Industrial Overall height: 66cm (26in) high;
brackets in the form of stylised dragons in turn Exposition) of 1881, see Oliver Impey and wingspan: 73cm (28¾in) wide;
resting on an inswept base decorated around Malcolm Fairley, The Dragon of the Sea, the stand: 30.5cm (12in) high.
the sides with 12 roundels enclosing in each Japanese Decorative Art of the Meiji Period
one of the 12 zodiac animals, the whole raised from the John R. Young Collection, Oxford, £5,000 - 6,000
JPY760,000 - 910,000
on four tall archaic mask feet, the underside of Ashmolean Museum, 1991, cat.no.11. US$6,800 - 8,200
the base signed Dai Nippon Tokyo no ju Otake
Norikuni sei.
Overall height: 61.5cm (24¼in) high. (2).
£3,000 - 4,000
JPY450,000 - 610,000
US$4,100 - 5,400

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