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MIYAO COMPANY (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
A bronze model of an attendant
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Cast in two shades of bronze and highlighted with gilt as an attendant
dressed in robes decorated with large peony blossoms in kebori, a small
cap on his head, a lantern in is left hand and a striker in his right, signed
Miyao, set on the original wood base decorated with scrolling vines in gold
takamaki-e
5 /4in (14.6cm) high (figure only), 8in (20.3cm) high overall
$3,500 - 4,500
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KAKUHA KANZAEMON (1835-1885)
An impressive group of six bronze models of elephants
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1870
Each cast in bronze and arranged according to size on a fitted stand
fashioned from a tree trunk, each elephant in a unique pose and finished on
the surface to resemble the animal’s rough hide, each model signed on the
underside in seal form with Kakuha’s shop seal Habiroya tsukuru (Made by
the Habiroya)
72in (182.8cm) wide
$8,000 - 12,000
Provenance
George N. Saegmuller Collection, purchased at the Philadelphia Centennial
International Exposition of 1876, by repute, and thence by descent
George N. Saegmuller was a partner in the optical lens manufacturing
company Bausch and Lomb from 1905 until the First World War.

Kakuha Kanzaemon was a member of a lineage of prominent metalworkers
from the city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture. In 1869, he opened an office
in the port of Yokohama for the export of bronze wares.
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