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Table screen with plastic decoration of ducks on a fence by the water on one side and stylised river with cherry blossoms on the other

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.367.1
Type: metalwork
Artist/Maker:
Takusai Honma I
Takusai Honma II
Takusai Honma III
Date of production:
19. század második fele
Meiji era
Place of production:
Sado Island, Japan
Signed: Signed: Takusai / 琢斎 in thread-relief characters within a sunken rectangle (more than one generation of Honma Takusai used the same mark)
Materials/Techniques: bronze
Dimensions: height: 12.5 cm
width: 16.8 cm
depth: 5.5 cm
Purchased at the Japan–British Exhibition in London, 1910 (HMI_227/1953)

Analogy in the Chiossone Museum (B–916): https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/22926/Kunsttexte_Transcultural%20Perspectives_Failla.pdf
Honma Takusai III (1868–1904): https://www.galerietiago.com/en/portfolio-item/groupe-tortues-en-bronze-honma-takusai-meiji/
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