TWO LOBSTERS - Japan - Meiji period (1868–1912)

TWO LOBSTERS
Japan, circa 1900
Meiji period (1868–1912)
Bronze
Height: 11 cm; Length: 18 cm (including antennae)
(accident at an antenna)

Two patinated bronze lobsters, each with a pair of antennae. The thinner ones, called antennular flagella, are fringed around the thicker antennal flagella.

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