A GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF AN EAGLE ON A TRAVERTINE PLINTH Japan, signed Masatsune shû, Meiji period L. 39 cm North German private collection, assembled since the 1970s until 2006 - For a similar work by the same artist, see Metalwork, Part II, vol. 2 of Meiji no Takara / Treasures of Imperial Japan: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley, gen. eds. (London: The Kibo Foundation, 1995), pl. 105. Wear to gilding