JAPANESE  BRONZE  STUDY  OF  AN  EAGLE  

ON  HARDWOOD  STAND

First-hand research by George W. Randall Archive ©
Illustrations GWR Research Archive

 

Close attention to detail, excellent craftsmanship and naturalistic modeling combine in this signed study of a Japanese sea eagle, Halieaetus pelagicus, by Miyao Eisuke, 1868 - 1912.

The Yokohama Miyao Company manufactured and dealt in a wide range of craft goods including large-scale bronze figures of samurai, Shibayama-work panels and ivory figures.

July 2003. Scratch damage to bird's left side.

Overall height: 21 inches   Height of stand: 15 inches

Height of eagle: 6 inches    Diagonal tip of beak to tip of tail: 8½ inches

    

Initially based in Yokohama, from c.1890, in Nihonbashi-ku, the commercial centre of Tokyo, the Miyao company first exhibited at the second Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai [National Industrial Exposition] where Miyao Eisuke collaborated with the bronze-caster Momose Sozaemon.

NOTE: Damage the right breast in this March 2006 image.

APRIL 2009.

                                   ↑ NOTE: Chipped beak and corner of damage to breast - follow arrow to wing. 

Most likely purchased by George Bullough at the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition
 held at Okazaki Park, Kyoto, Japan, (1 April to 31 July 1895), 
during his three year long world tour.

APRIL 2009. Scratch damage to left side.

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POSTED 26 JULY 2016