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Meiji-Taisho period (early 20th century), signed Muneyoshi (Tanaka Tadayoshi; ?-1958)
Details
A silver articulated sculpture of a praying mantis
Meiji-Taisho period (early 20th century), signed Muneyoshi (Tanaka Tadayoshi; ?-1958)
The silver praying mantis finely constructed of numerous hammered parts jointed together with movable wings, limbs and head, the details finely chiseled
4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) long
Meiji-Taisho period (early 20th century), signed Muneyoshi (Tanaka Tadayoshi; ?-1958)
The silver praying mantis finely constructed of numerous hammered parts jointed together with movable wings, limbs and head, the details finely chiseled
4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) long
Literature
Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), p. 307.
Exhibited
National Palace Museum, “The arts and Cultures of Asia,” 2004. cat. no. 21.
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