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A LARGE BRONZE VASE
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A LARGE BRONZE VASE

SIGNED RYOUN, MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912)

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A LARGE BRONZE VASE
Signed Ryoun, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
With dark brown patination, of elongated ovoid form with a short neck and out-turned rim, cast and chiselled in medium relief with four carp in a stream, a few details in gold, signed on the base in cast characters Ryoun
21in. (53.2cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Takahashi Ryoun exhibited a vase with this subject-matter at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.1

1 Tokyo Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kenkyujo [Tokyo National Research Institution of Cultural Properties], Meiji-ki bankoku hakurankai bijutsuhin shuppin mokuroku [Catalogs of objects exhibited at the international expositions in the Meiji period] (Tokyo, Chuokoron Bijutsu Shuppan, 1997), Q 107; see also Q 161, 175 and R 863

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