Live Auction 12020Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post-War London
A Bronze Articulated Lobster
Lot 128 The Property of an English Gentleman

A Bronze Articulated Lobster

Signed Muneyoshi (Myochin), Edo period (19th century)

Closed11 November 2015

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GBP 16,250

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A Bronze Articulated Lobster
Signed Muneyoshi (Myochin), Edo period (19th century)
An okimono [sculptural ornament] constructed of numerous hammered plates joined inside the body, details finely carved and chiselled, the body with reddish-brown patina, signature on underside of tail fin
47cm. long, (57.5cm. long with antennae extended)

Specialist note

For a similar example in the Khalili Collection, see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley (eds.), The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, vol. II, Metalwork, (London, 1995), no.112.

A similar example sold in Christie’s New York on 18 Sept. 2013, sale 2725, lot 765.