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AN IRON ARTICULATED SCULPTURE OF A PRAWN 江戶時代 鐵自在蝦 銘 明珍
EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY), SIGNED MYOCHIN
多組鐵件搥出接合精製而成,工序繁複。鉗可張,身可曲,
The iron prawn fnely constructed of numerous hammered plates 眼、鬚、爪皆可動,鍛工精良,鑿刻細緻,蝦身銘款。
jointed inside the body; the claws open, the body bends and the eyes,
antennae, limbs and fns move, the details fnely carved, signature on 展覽
the body 「驚人的明治工藝」,東京藝術大學美術館,2016年9月7
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long 日-10月30日;京都細見美術館,2016年11月12日-12月25日;
埼玉縣川越市立美術館,2017年4月22日-6月11日;展覽圖錄
HK$120,000-200,000 US$15,000-26,000 展品編號14。
著錄
EXHIBITED
“Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” shown at the following 郭鴻盛及張元鳳主編,《明治之美》,國立臺灣師範大學文物
venues: Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, 2016.9.7-10.30. 保存維護研究發展中心,2013年,頁332。
Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, 2016.11.12-12.25. Kawagoe City Art
Museum, 2017.4.22-6.11, cat. no. 14. 明珍宗長擅製自在寄居蟹及蝦。大英博物館藏一其銘款之自在
寄居蟹,見原田一敏編,「自在置物」,《綠青》期刊別冊11
LITERATURE ,2010年,圖版28。
Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi
/ Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National
Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of
Cultural Relics, 2013), p. 332.
Among Myochin artists, Myochin Munenaga is best known for
his articulated iron models of hermit crabs and prawns like the
present lot. For an articulated hermit crab signed by Munenaga
in the British Museum, see Harada Kazutoshi, ed., Jizai okimono
/ Articulated Iron Figures of Animals, vol. 11 of Bessatsu Rokusho
(Kyoto: Maria Shobo Co., Ltd., 2010), pl. 28.