A pair of large inlaid shibuichi geese on a lacquered-wood stand


By Kano Seiun (born 1871), Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th centuryNaturalistically chiselled and with details in shakudo, shibuichi and gold, each standing, one with its neck lowered and drawn in, 14cm (5½in) high; the other with its head elegantly raised, looking ahead, 29.7cm (11¾in) high, each goose signed on its belly with chiselled characters Seiun and standing on a separate lacquered-wood oval stand embellished in gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji simulating a river. The stand: 9cm x 64cm (3½in x 25 1/8in). (3).
|Kano Seiun worked in Tokyo and studied metalworking under Oshima Joun. He exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and at the Taisho Exhibition in Tokyo in 1914. One of his okimono sculptures is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum.