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Baluster vase with a bear on a rock
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe › France › Paris Department › Paris (Paris Exposition Internationale) (former location)
- Date
- 1900
- Artist/maker
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Hayashibe Katsunao (active c. 1900)
- Material and technique
- bronze, inlaid with soft metal in low relief, and with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in soft metals
- Dimensions
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17.5 cm (height)
8.5 cm (diameter)
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
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container › vessel › vase › baluster vase
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1994.
- Accession no.
- EA1994.65
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 31 on p. 66, p. 8, illus. pp. 66-67
Location
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Baluster shaped bronze vase inlaid in soft metals with bear on rock overlooking a stream, in low relief & and flat inlay (hira-zōgan). Engraved signature: Hayashibe Katsunao with inlaid gold seal: Nao.
No ther works by this artist seem to be recorded. This vase was exhibited at the Paris Exposition Internationale in 1900, and illustrated in the catalogue (unnumbered and unpaginated). Similar such vases, by a number of different artists, were exhibited at the same Exposition.
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