MIYAO EISUKE COMPANY OF YOKOHAMA A Pair of Gilt-Bronze Figure...
MIYAO EISUKE COMPANY OF YOKOHAMA
A Pair of Gilt-Bronze Figures of Flute Players
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each musician standing and holding a flute pressed to their lips, each dressed in elegant ceremonial court robes, and wearing a tachi (slung sword) slung at their waist, one figure's dress carved with chidori (plovers or dotterels) in flight over waves contrasting with his companion's robes decorated with sasarindo mon (Japanese gentian crest) and the kiri-mon (paulownia crest), each fixed to a typical Miyao-style wood stand decorated in gold takamaki-e with a ho-o bird and karakusa ('Chinese grasses'); each signed in a gilt rectangular reserve Miyao with seal Ei. Each figure: 30.5cm (12in) high including stand. (2).
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MIYAO EISUKE COMPANY OF YOKOHAMA
A Pair of Gilt-Bronze Figures of Flute Players
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each musician standing and holding a flute pressed to their lips, each dressed in elegant ceremonial court robes, and wearing a tachi (slung sword) slung at their waist, one figure's dress carved with chidori (plovers or dotterels) in flight over waves contrasting with his companion's robes decorated with sasarindo mon (Japanese gentian crest) and the kiri-mon (paulownia crest), each fixed to a typical Miyao-style wood stand decorated in gold takamaki-e with a ho-o bird and karakusa ('Chinese grasses'); each signed in a gilt rectangular reserve Miyao with seal Ei. Each figure: 30.5cm (12in) high including stand. (2).
