Hata Zoroku IV (1896-1984): Un vase de forme double gourde en bronze patiné ocre, Japon, Showa, 20ème siècle

H 27 cm

This Showa period vase comes with its original tomobako (the wooden storage box).

The Zoroku name has been used by six generations of Kyoto bronze artists. The line began in the late Edo with the first Zoroku (died in 1890), who brought the family to fame with his modified Ryubundo and Ko-do techniques. He is known to have worked for both the Edo shogun and the emperor. It is unknown when the second Zoroku (born 1820) passed away, however the third generation lived ca. 1855-1932. With the fourth generation styles seem to have changed to greener patinas and splashed gold techniques, with heavy Chinese influence from the 1950’s through the 1980’s. As a  family of eminent metal artists famous for their lost wax casting, the Hata family was patronized by the Imperial Household Agency.