Brûleur à encens k?r? en bronze noir en forme... Lot 21
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Brûleur à encens k?r? en bronze noir en forme de chien-viverrin (tanuki) portant une bouilloire sur son dos : Une référence à la légende du tanuki qui s’est transformé en bouilloire pour repayer le bûcheron qui lui avait sauvé la vie. Le bûcheron devint un artiste ambulant grâce à la bouilloire qui faisait partie de son numéro. Période Meiji.
H. : 11 cm; l. : 15 cm; Prof. : 10 cm.
Black bronze k?r?-incense burner in the shape of a badger-dog (tanuki) with a tea-kettle on its back: the story of the badger that changed himself into a kettle to repay the woodman who had saved its life: the woodman became finally a travelling entertainer with the badger-kettle doing the entertaining. Meiji Period.
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