A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE JAPANESE IRON JIZAI OKIMONO OF A CRAB BY MYŌCHIN MUNEYOSHI

£8,000 - £12,000

£10,795

A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE JAPANESE IRON JIZAI OKIMONO OF A CRAB BY MYŌCHIN MUNEYOSHI
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Naturalistically modelled with fully articulated limbs, eyes, and mandibles; with a warm chocolate-brown patina, the reverse with a signature reading as 'Myochi Muneyoshi, made at the age of seventy-seven', 28cm; together with a tomobako (wood box). (2)