Sculpture

Description

Bronze sculpture of a cockerel with wings spread standing on a tree stump with a hen and three chicks below, comprising ten parts: Japan, Tokyo, Nihonbashi, by Ōtake Norikuni, 1890 - 1900

Museum reference

A.1958.107

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sculpture

Production information

Ōtake Norikuni, 1852 (b.) - 1900 (fl.), Maker
Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tōkyō-to, Japan, East Asia

Date

1890 - 1900

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze

Exhibitions

• Looking East: The Lady Ivy Wu Gallery (29 Jul 2011 - 08 Jun 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Joe Earle, Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan - Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection (Broughton International Publications, 1999), p. 242 [similar work]

William Walton, Art and Architecture (G. Barrie, 1893), p. 89 - "On a pedestal in the centre of Section No. 2, is a marvelous bronze by Otake, thus judiciously catalogued, "A Cock with a long tail on a Plum Tree, beneath which are a Hen and Little Chickens." All the details of this feathered group, the life, the spirit, are rendered in the metal as no European sculptor could."