24th Jul, 2025 11:00
Three-Day Auction: Asian Art Discoveries
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UDAGAWA KAZUO: A SUPERB TOKYO SCHOOL BRONZE OKIMONO OF A BIJIN AND CHILD
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
By Udagawa Kazuo, signed Udagawa Kazuo
Japan, Tokyo, c. 1900, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Boldly cast and naturalistically modeled to depict a beauty walking barefoot, carrying a child on her back, who plays joyfully with her hair, while holding a tetsubin and a small scythe in her hand. She is wearing loose-fitting robes tied at the waist with richly carved folds. Her face with a gentle expression marked by her subtle smile, the hair gathered in an elaborate chignon. The base signed UDAGAWA KAZUO.
With an associated old wood base.
HEIGHT 37.7 cm
WEIGHT 5,854 g
Condition: Very good condition with some associated surface wear and casting irregularities, few scattered nicks and scratches, expected natural nog at the base.
Provenance: From a private collection in Austria. The wood base with two old labels inscribed with a collector’s number, ‘1054’.
Udagawa Kazuo exhibited his larger sculptural pieces at the international expositions of the Meiji era from 1900 until 1910, specializing in genre figures and groups that were executed in bronze, wood and ivory; see Earle, Joe (2002) Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London, cat. nos. 269 and 273.
Auction comparison:
Compare a closely related bronze okimono by the same artist, also dated to the Meiji period, 62 cm high, at Bonhams, Fine Works of Asian Art, 18 June 2007, San Francisco, lot 6014 (sold for USD 10,200 or approx. EUR 14,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).
By Udagawa Kazuo, signed Udagawa Kazuo
Japan, Tokyo, c. 1900, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Boldly cast and naturalistically modeled to depict a beauty walking barefoot, carrying a child on her back, who plays joyfully with her hair, while holding a tetsubin and a small scythe in her hand. She is wearing loose-fitting robes tied at the waist with richly carved folds. Her face with a gentle expression marked by her subtle smile, the hair gathered in an elaborate chignon. The base signed UDAGAWA KAZUO.
With an associated old wood base.
HEIGHT 37.7 cm
WEIGHT 5,854 g
Condition: Very good condition with some associated surface wear and casting irregularities, few scattered nicks and scratches, expected natural nog at the base.
Provenance: From a private collection in Austria. The wood base with two old labels inscribed with a collector’s number, ‘1054’.
Udagawa Kazuo exhibited his larger sculptural pieces at the international expositions of the Meiji era from 1900 until 1910, specializing in genre figures and groups that were executed in bronze, wood and ivory; see Earle, Joe (2002) Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London, cat. nos. 269 and 273.
Auction comparison:
Compare a closely related bronze okimono by the same artist, also dated to the Meiji period, 62 cm high, at Bonhams, Fine Works of Asian Art, 18 June 2007, San Francisco, lot 6014 (sold for USD 10,200 or approx. EUR 14,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).
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