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A bronze okimono of a recumbent stag By Unno Biko, Meiji/Taisho Period image 1
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Lot 380*

A bronze okimono of a recumbent stag
By Unno Biko, Meiji/Taisho Period

10 November 2011, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A bronze okimono of a recumbent stag

By Unno Biko, Meiji/Taisho Period
Naturalistically cast with all its forelegs folded in for compactness and its head slightly raised bearing an alert expression, the spots on its body rendered in pigment, the antlers affixed and carefully worked to imitate the texture of horn, signed Biko saku. 26.3cm x 25.7cm (10 5/8in x 10 1/8in).

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銅置物 鹿 海野美衡作 明治/大正時代

Although the metalworker is not recorded by Wakayama Takeshi, Kinko jiten (A Dictionary of Metalworkers), he is probably a pupil of Unno Bisei/Yoshimori II (1864-1919), from whom he has also adopted the first character of Bisei's name.

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