ID 820085
Lot 306 | A PAIR OF JAPANESE BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), EACH SIGNED MIYAO SEI
Each cast as two acrobats balancing a taiko drum, details finely chiseled and gilded, faces and hands patinated in copper, on robes of the two male acrobats and the fan incised Miyao and Miyao sei; two bases modeled as cloth covered stages, finely chiseled and gilt with chrysanthemum, each signed Miyao sei
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Parish-Hadley, New York, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1978.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Historical era: | Meiji period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Sculptures |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Historical era: | Meiji period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Sculptures |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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