Superb Tokeo School Bronze of Farmer Holding a Wheat Sheaf

A Meiji period bronze of a boy carrying twigs, they are strapped onto his back on a carrying frame and he carries a gourd water bottle in his right hand, signed in a seal. Japanese, ...

A Meiji period bronze sculpture of a mother and son by Atsuyoshi, she is shown seated on a gnarled rootwood base, with her arm round a crying boy standing by her knee and offering her breast, wearing a short robe, trousers and a cloth incised with Mount Fuji around her head, and bare feet. Signed Atsuyoshi saku, Maruki Shachu seisaku (??????????? (??????????). Japanese, circa 1880. Footnote: Atsuyoshi is known for a number of finely modelled bronze studies of both wild and domesticated animals, almost all of them made for the Tokyo based Maruki Company. This is therefore an unusual subject matter for him and Japanese bronzes in general , however Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman, in ‘Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period’ (in the Ashmolean Museum Collections), pp. 68-69, include a bronze group of a woman who has just finished breast feeding...

This figural group shows a mendicant Oni with a tattered umbrella and wearing a voluminous shakudo cloak over gilt tiger mask greaves. A smaller Oni wears s...

A pair of Meiji period bronze vases, decorated in high relief, one with a pheasant perched on a branch of prunus blossom and the other with two carp swimming under a bough of wisteri...

A pair of fine Meiji period bronze vases by Hidenobu, each of slender baluster form with and elongated neck, worked in silver, shakudo and patinated bronze with carp swimming amongst...

A Meiji bronze vase by Nobuhira, of baluster shape with a spirally twisted neck, the body decorated with four high relief crabs and several partially...

A sculpted Japanese bronze of a Bactrian camel.

A delightful antique Japanese Meiji Bronze portrayal of a fisherman dating from the 19th century. The fisherman is portrayed with a very large fish and sitting on it to hold it down....

A pair of contemporary cast bronze mythological guardian animal sculptures in verdigris patina. Attracting our attention with their striking appearance, this pair of bronze sculpture...

Bronze Koro (Japanese incense burner) in the shape of a rooster Removable top.

A beautiful French patinated bronze figure of a standing Japanese geisha in a traditional kimono with an obi. This geisha is exceptionally cast with immense detail. Starting from the...

Elegant pair of bronze hands of the Buddha displaying two ritual gestures, the Abhaya mudra, which represents protection, peace, benevolence, and t...