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Suiban, bowl for flower arrangements
Kimura Toun19th century
MUDEC - Museum of Cultures
Milan, Italy
Flower vase (suiban) in bronze cast with lost wax mold techinque (chukin) with rectangular section. On the body there is a high relief decoration depicting a dragon (ryu) in the clouds (kumo).The artifact lay on four feet clouds shaped. On the underside there is an inscription which prove that the artifact can be precisely dated on 1838.
Details
- Title: Suiban, bowl for flower arrangements
- Creator: Kimura Toun
- Date Created: 19th century
- Location Created: Japan
- Physical Dimensions: l 33,9 cm
- Transcript:“Cast by Toun, in the summer of the eighth year of the Tenpō era”Hide TranscriptShow Transcript
- Type: Vase
- Rights: Giovanni Battista Lucini Passalacqua Collection - Museum of Cultures, Milan - GIAP 508
- Medium: Bronze, lost-wax cast fusion, patina
- Collocazione: Currently not on view
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