A silvered and gilt bronze okimono
A silvered and gilt bronze okimono

SIGNED HIDENAO, LATE MEIJI/TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A silvered and gilt bronze okimono
Signed Hidenao, late Meiji/Taisho Period (Early 20th Century)
A fine and elegant model of a owl, perched on the knarled stump of a plum tree, a blossoming twig emerging from one side
15in. (40cm.) high

Lot Essay

This artist is unrecorded, but for a similar example of an okimono representing a bird on a branch, dated 1911, see Joe Earle, Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces from the Khalili
Collection
(St. Petersburg, Florida, 1999), cat. no. 318

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