Japanese Works of Art - 23 Nov 2021
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A JAPANESE BRONZE OKIMONO OF TORTOISES BY KOSE
A JAPANESE BRONZE OKIMONO OF TORTOISES BY KOSE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY
Both realistically cast, the larger animal with its right leg forward as if slowly stepping away, its young climbing on its side, a three-character mark incised underneath reading Kose saku, 17cm.
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