A JAPANESE SILVERED BRONZE OKIMONO OF TWO GEESE BY CHIKAYOSHI

A JAPANESE SILVERED BRONZE OKIMONO OF TWO GEESE BY CHIKAYOSHI

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

Both realistically rendered, their beaks, eyes and legs picked out in gilt, one leaning forward whilst the other stretches out its neck and flaps its wings, the taller one with a rectangular cartouche underneath reading Chikayoshi saku, the birds raised on a black lacquer stand, 30cm overall. (3)