Asian Art II - 18th May 2016
Lot 906
TWO JAPANESE MYOCHIN-SCHOOL IRON ARTICULATED MODELS OF INSECTS 19TH CENTURY The first a grasshopper
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £2800
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TWO JAPANESE MYOCHIN-SCHOOL IRON ARTICULATED MODELS OF INSECTS
19TH CENTURY
The first a grasshopper, naturalistically rendered with fully articulated legs and wings, the details finely incised, signed Muneyoshi to the underside of the wing, the other a cockroach, unsigned, 10.4cm. (2)
Provenance: from an English private collection.