JAPANESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE OKIMONO OF AN ARCHER
BY YOSHIMITSU, MEIJI PERIOD
£2,772
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
明治 芳光 銅鑄射手置物
cast finished in two shades of bronze and highlighted in gilding as a warrior kneeling on his right knee dressed in a haramaki with his bow drawn and arrow notched, robes decorated with bamboo and wheels, and an eboshi, a tanto thrust in his sash, signed in a gilt rectangular reserve Yoshimitsu
Dimensions
39cm high including bow
Provenance
Private Scottish collection of an avid collector of Asian art over six decades, Edinburgh; Inherited from the current owner’s father, acquired in November 1970 from Gordon Lawrence, an Asian art dealer in New Bond Street, London (by repute)
Footnote
Highly comparable okimonos of an archer, also by Yoshimitsu, are sold at Bonhams, respectively at New York, 14 September 2016, lot 202, and at Los Angeles, 10 October 2019, part lot 261.