A bronze okimono group of two tigers


By Genryusai Seiya, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryBoth tigers fixed to an en-suite bronze stand cast to resemble the rocky banks of a river, the adult tiger with its head lowered and about to drink water from the river, its cub waiting by its mother's side, signed Seiya saku within a rectangular reserve; the whole on an un-associated separate large oval marble stand. The tiger group: 16cm x 41.5cm (6¼in x 16¼in); the marble stand: 3cm x 45cm (1 1/8in x 17¾in). (2).