Lot 367

FINE JAPANESE BRONZE OKIMONO OF A QUAIL
BY THE MARUKI COMPANY, MEIJI PERIOD










Auction: 07 November 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
明治 「行泰」、「日本國丸喜」製 銅鵪鶉置物
naturalistically cast standing with its head lowered into its chest, buried in plumage, signed on the underside Nihon koku Maruki sei within a square reserve below a two-character maker's mark
Dimensions
10cm wide; 550g
Provenance
From an Edinburgh executry
Footnote
A highly comparable example, also by the Maruki Company, Meiji era, was sold at Bonhams London, 8 Nov 2018, part lot 230.









