LOT DETAILS

Materials:

iron

Measurements:

by 6.14 in. (15.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Myochin saku

Exhibited:

University of St, Thomas, Houston, Texas, "Made of Iron", Sept-Dec 1966

Literature:

Tokyo National Museum, ed., Jizai okimono: Honmono no yo ni jiyu ni ugokaseru hebi ya konchu / Articulated iron figures: Movable representations from nature from snakes to insects (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 2008), pl. 29

Provenance:

Oshima Kano Collection, New York, acquired in 1939 The Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Mass