Details
A cricket cage
modelled as a reticulated basket and cover with floral spray finial, the basket tied with a silk ribbon forming the loop handle, painted and gilt with panels of bijin at leisure and mandarin ducks at a riverbank, all on a ground of scattered flower sprays, geometric designs and chidori above foaming waves -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) high, signed Ryokuzan.
See Colour Plate 5 and detail of signature.
modelled as a reticulated basket and cover with floral spray finial, the basket tied with a silk ribbon forming the loop handle, painted and gilt with panels of bijin at leisure and mandarin ducks at a riverbank, all on a ground of scattered flower sprays, geometric designs and chidori above foaming waves -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) high, signed Ryokuzan.
See Colour Plate 5 and detail of signature.