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Arrival of a Dutch Three-master at Schloss Kronberg by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1562 - 1640)
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Untei SEKINE（関根雲停 Japanese, 1804-1877）
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When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be one hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty.
King Baldwin IV
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Ornament of Fish in Waves (Okimono). Japan, circa 1900. Bronze, silver, gilt, shibuichi and shakudo. 13.1 x 48.7 cm. An okimono of stylized bronze waves among which swim two shubunkin, one cast in richly patinated copper, the other in oxidized silver with partially gilt areas, the eyes of shibuichi, shakudo, and gilt. The fish naturalistically modelled, supported by the highly stylized waves.
Oshima Joun (1858-1940), given name Yasutaro, was the son of the cast-metal worker Oshima Takajiro, whose father Yasubei had started the family business. He succeeded to the business in 1877 and took the name Joun. He used the go Shokaken. Text and image via Khalili Collection
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