A JAPANESE ARTICULATED BRONZE MODEL OF A SPINY LOBSTER

A JAPANESE ARTICULATED BRONZE MODEL OF A SPINY LOBSTER, JIZAI OKIMONO

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

With a fully articulated body, the surface of the exoskeleton realistically modelled, 48cm.

Provenance: from a private collection of jizai okimono. See Woolley & Wallis Salerooms, 14th November 2018, lot 1007, for a Myochin School articulated snake signed Muneyoshi from the same collection.