Product Description

7146 A pair of bronze puppies playing

Impressed seal: Nakao Munesada

Tomobako (original box) inscribed:

Lid: Zenshi dai jūichi gō, Karakane, Nakao Munesada (Nakao Sōtei), inu no ko giyū, jūki (A Chinese bronze set of puppies at play made by Nakao Munesada. Model Number 11)

Japan 19th century Edo period

Dimensions:
Puppy 1: H. 6½” x W. 4¾” (16cm x 12cm)
Puppy 2: H. 5¾” x W. 4¾” (14.5cm x 12cm)

Nakao Munesada (d. 1835)
Munesada was a metal artist working in Osaka in the late Edo period with his sons continuing the family tradition into the Meiji period.