Details
A Japanese gilt-bronze model of a kneeling archer
leaning back on his right leg and drawing a bow and arrow, wearing a hat and robes decorated in hirazogan and takazogan with scattered mon and bamboo sprays above roundels, the details well defined and eyes gilt, wood stand -- 14.in (36.8cm) high (to the top of bow), signed, 19th Century.
See Colour Plate 8.
leaning back on his right leg and drawing a bow and arrow, wearing a hat and robes decorated in hirazogan and takazogan with scattered mon and bamboo sprays above roundels, the details well defined and eyes gilt, wood stand -- 14.in (36.8cm) high (to the top of bow), signed, 19th Century.
See Colour Plate 8.