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Bronze Plaque of a Ni-o browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Metalwork:Pre 1900: item # 614933 Please refer to our stock # 02-101 when inquiring.
Flying Cranes Antiques Ltd. 1050 Second Avenue, Galleries 55, 56 and 58 New York, NY 10022 Tel.212-223-4600 Guest Book Price On Request |
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| A wood-framed Japanese rectangular bronze plaque with a powerful Ni-o (temple guardian) bearing a vajra (thunderbolt weapon). As he emerges in high relief from the plaque’s dark background, the copper patination used for his extraordinary musculature and ferocious expression is intensified. His fierce eyes are inlaid with gold, copper and shakudo and his robes, eddying about him, decorated with mon of inlaid gold and shakudo. This plaque represents Meiji metalwork at its best. Length: 12 inches, width: 9 inches. Tekisuizo engraved signature with inlaid gold kakihan (artist’s seal). Meiji Period (1868-1912), Japan. This plaque is in excellent condition. | |||||||
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