A JAPANESE ARTICULATED BRONZE MODEL OF A SPINY LOBSTER
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £4800
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Description
A JAPANESE ARTICULATED BRONZE MODEL OF A SPINY LOBSTER, KUSSHIN JIZAI OKIMONO
MEIJI 1868-1912
Modelled with fully articulated limbs and shell, cast in naturalistic detail, unsigned, 42cm.
Provenance: the collection of Roy Merley, purchased from Lennox Money Antiques, 18th June 1975.
Cf. H Mami, Chozetsugiko
Meiji Kogei no Iki, p.110 no.6-10 for another example of fully articulated lobster of the same quality.
