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Subject:Looking for info on this Meiji lion sculpture with signature
Posted By: LD Tue, Aug 25, 2015 IP: 174.117.111.84
I'm looking for any info on this statue, especially what the siganture/inscription says or who might have made it.

Thanks.




Subject:Re: Looking for info on this Meiji lion sculpture with signature
Posted By: Guy Thu, Aug 27, 2015
Lovely Meiji bronze. I'm struggling with the reading of that first character. The second character reads 'masa'.

Guy.

Subject:Re: Looking for info on this Meiji lion sculpture with signature
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Aug 29, 2015
I believe in Japan a shape like the top of the first character sometimes is given to radicals 9 (人 - man) and 12 (八 - eight), such as when writing "ku" in Kutani. If that's what has been done in this bronze mark, it would form the character 全, meaning "complete". However, I mention this only as edification and have no idea which of the several transcriptions might apply, if at all relevant to this mark.

Good luck,

Bill H

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Subject:Re: Looking for info on this Meiji lion sculpture with signature
Posted By: Guy Mon, Aug 31, 2015
A variant of 羊? Seems not very plausible but you never know.

Guy.

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