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Puppies
(Kushi 狗子)
(c. 1930)
- Medium
- bronze
- Measurements
- (a) 15.0 × 10.5 × 18.0 cm (large puppy)
(b) 9.4 × 12.2 × 16.8 cm (small puppy) - Place/s of Execution
- Japan
- Accession Number
- 2015.410.a-b
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO, 2015 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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These bronze sculptures display the long and skilled tradition of Japanese bronzeware portraying playful ideas of ‘cute’. Dogs are animals of the Japanese and Chinese zodiac calendar, and became popular themes in Japanese art during the Edo period (1600–1868). The simplicity and sophistication of Japanese Art Deco design during the modernist era is illustrated here by the puppies’ solid rounded forms, contrasted with their innocent, delicately rendered expressions.