"Bronze Realistic Bull 1880"
Beautiful realistic bronze Okimono representing a bull or a buffalo certainly a representation of the sign of the zodiac resting on a carpet of plants, typically Japanese gadrooned base reminiscent of the rays of the sun. Very beautiful quality of casting, fineness of the chiseling, brown patina, hammered underside unsigned but beautiful Japanese work in all its finesse Japan Meiji era End of the 19th century 
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