A JAPANESE MIYAO-STYLE GILT BRONZE FIGURE

A JAPANESE MIYAO-STYLE GILT BRONZE FIGURE, OKIMONO

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Depicting a joyful-looking drummer seated cross-legged and resting against his instrument, his robes richly decorated with various mon and the hidari-mitsudomoe Shinto symbol, the three comma-like swirls symbol repeated on the drum, raised on a four-legged wood stand painted with a hibiscus flowerhead and scrolling tendrils, the base with remnants of a paper collection label, 13cm.