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A Rare Pair of Large Bronze Hōō Bird and Tortoise Okimono Ornaments鳳亀彫金象嵌ブロンズ置物一対Meiji era (1868–1912), circa 1880The tall dark-brown patinated bronze birds with complementary symmetry, one with its left wing extended and its right folded, the other with its right wing extended and its left folded, each standing on the back of a kame (tortoise), the feathers and other details minutely chiseled and inlaid in gold, silver, and copper, the edges of the turtles' carapaces inlaid in gold with a stylized cloud design, the eyes inlaid in gold, each signed underneath the turtle with chiseled characters Dainihonkoku Etchū Takaoka Muroe Kichibei tsukuru 大日本國 越中 高岡 室江吉兵衛造 (Made by Muroe Kichibei of Takaoka in Etchū [Province] in the Country of Great Japan) Height 32 7/8 in. (83.4 cm)