Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period
Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period

Japanese bronze crow on a wood tree stump signed Mitani, Meiji period

Code: 10250

Dimensions:

W: 26cm (10.2")H: 44cm (17.3")D: 20cm (7.9")

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Japanese bronze crow modelled with its wings folded perched on a gnarled wood tree stump.The feather work finely carved and the eyes inlaid in glass, signed in an oval reserve beneath the tail Mitani 美谷, Meiji period (1868-1912).

In Japanese mythology crows are thought to be gifted with supernatural powers and are also messengers of the gods.

Size of crow without wood stump: H 29cm (11.41" in.)

For bronze works by the same artist see: 'The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono, the Dr. Kanter Collection' by Laura Bordignon, ACC Woodbridge 2010, Metalwork no. 244, 245, 246.

Mitani, Frederick Baekeland 'Imperial Japan, the art of the Meiji Era', Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York 1980. Catalogue no. 106.

 

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