File:Khalili Collection Japanese Meiji Art M118detail.jpg
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Pair of Samurai Figures
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Pair of Samurai Figures (detail) |
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sculpture  |
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| Description |
English: A pair of large bronze figures of samurai warriors, each dressed in richly brocaded clothes and wearing full armour. One with a coiled-dragon motif in relief on the do (body armour), which also bears scattered aoi mon. The other armour with a shishi and brocade ball emblazoned on the front of the do amid persimmon mon. Each soldier armed with a tachi and aikuchi tanto and holding upright a naginata. Details picked out in thick gilding, silver, and shakudo. Each on a typical Miyao-style wood stand decorated in gold lacquer with ho-o amid foliate scrolls. The mon on the do repeated in the centre of each base. |
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circa |
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| Medium |
bronze, shakudō, silver and gold |
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| Place of creation |
Japan |
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| References |
https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/japanese-art-of-the-meiji-period/khalili-collections-japanese-art-of-the-meiji-period-pair-of-samurai-figures-m118/ (English) |
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| Author | Khalili Collections | ||
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