LOT DETAILS

Materials:

iron

Measurements:

9.61 in. (24.40 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Shigemitsu (Hirata Shigemitsu; 1855-1926) and Katsu...; the signature on base

Exhibited:

National Palace Museum, “The arts and Cultures of Asia,” 2004. cat. no. 54. “Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” shown at the following venues: Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, 2016.9.7-10.30. Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, 2016.11.12-12.25. Kawagoe City Art Museum, 2017.4.22-6.11. cat. no. 78.

Literature:

Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), p. 207.