A JAPANESE BRONZE OKIMONO OF A TIGER

A JAPANESE BRONZE OKIMONO OF A TIGER

MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

The feline standing four-square and baring its fangs in a snarl, the eyes inset in glass and with the stripes on its back naturalistically depicted, the belly signed Tadamitsu, in an inscribed tomobako wood box, 50cm. (2)

Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset, purchased in Japan.