Japanese Garden Pair Him & Her Folk Hero Tanukis Handmade Big Belly Sculptures
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Pair (2) Charming Signed Sculptures
An older pair of fun loving Him and Her handmade and hand glazed and big bellied Folk art Hero Tanukis- raccoon dog party animals from Japan.
Brandishing their sake order forms, these are hand crafted in quality hand painted, thick glazed pottery.
Nice bow on their chests.
Signed.
Dimensions: larger is 12 inches tall and 5.5 inches wide
Quality: Fine quality and he brandishes a sake bottle in one hand and a sheaf of paper pages in the other. The top page is marked with a character KAYOI, which translates as ORDER BOOK, so this tanuki acts as a sake vendor. Notable are his protruding belly with exaggerated genitals. . Now hard to find these large-scale earlier examples.
Handmade and hand glazed, thick heavily crafted pottery
Good garden candidates
History:
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), also known as tanuki in Japanese, is a subspecies of the Asian raccoon dog.
As tanuki, this animal has been significant in Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absentminded. It is also a common theme in Japanese art, especially statuary and can be commonly seen in businesses as cultural symbols.
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Our gallery based in Newport, Rhode Island USA has been dealing in authentic Pre-Columbian, Japanese and fine Asian art, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels across America as well as Japan and Europe each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique work of art to ensure its old age, authenticity and quality condition.
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