A JAPANESE WOOD AND IRON FISH-SHAPED KETTLE HOOK

A JAPANESE WOOD AND IRON FISH-SHAPED JIZAI KAGI (KETTLE HOOK)
EDO/MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

Typically modelled as a stylised fish, attached to a heavy iron chain and suspending a hook, the chain approx. 260cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Robert L Stolper of Stolper Galleries, and thence by descent. Robert worked with Asian and African art from the 1940s onwards in Amsterdam, Munich, New York and the UK.