A PAIR OF WOOD TEMPLE DOGS JAPAN, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

each carved and constructed from pieces of wood, portrayed seated, one with mouth open agyo, the other with mouth closed ungyo, representing the beginning and ending of everything in the universe (2)

Jane Baum Interiors, New York, 23rd July, 1979.
Collection of A. Alfred Taubman.

Both figures with front legs and heads reattached and reinforced with metal brackets and pins. One with a back paw replaced, the other with a patch repair to one back paw. Both with possible replacements to sections of the tails.There is some splitting and wear overall consistent with age.
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