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Lot 404 · Ceramics · L 7 · H 4.5 cm置物
COLLECTIBLE FIGURINE “BULL”
Date of creation undetermined, traditional folk art Mingei
Cast iron; art solid casting, hand finishing.
Estimate
6 000 – 8 000 ₽
- Dimensions
Length — 7 cm, height — 4.5 cm. Weight: 227.7 g.
- Description
A collectible cabinet miniature in the form of a bull in an expressive modernist (“naive”) style characteristic of the postwar MingeiMingei 民芸 — a movement for the revival of traditional folk crafts and of the “beauty of everyday things”, founded by the philosopher Yanagi Soetsu in the 1920s. movement. The metal is covered with a noble dark protective layer with natural olive-green transitions.