Japanese Meiji Bronze Dragon Sculpture Holding Golden Orb

Japanese Momoyama period solid bronze cast diminutive Buddha sculpture. The piece dates from the 16th-17th century, circa 1450-1500, and is in remarkable condition with age-appropria...

Japanese Meiji period bronze tripod vessel with laurel leaves in relief. Old repair work on the inside.

Japanese Meiji period Art Nouveau bronze vase in shape of a lotus, hand incised detailing and rare chocolate brown patina, circa 1900.

A large 1860s Japanese Meiji period bronze Ikebana branch vase in bamboo shape. Good original dark brown patina. Unsigned.

Japanese Meiji period bronze vessel with elaborately sculpted animal heads. Lion, ape and bull heads are surrounding the vessel. Made in Japan in the circa 1880s, the piece has a mak...

Japanese Meiji period ikebana vessel made in bronze with a decorative tripod base featuring Chrysanthemum blossoms on stems. The piece has a channeled g...

Darker brown patina with fully articulated body. Purchased in London by previous owner.

Wonderful patina and fully articulated. Purchased in London by previous owner.

Dark greenish brown patina with fully articulated body. Purchased in London by past owner.

Dark copper toned patina, wonderfully articulated. Purchased in London by previous owner.

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 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...