An iron articulated sculpture of a hermit crab Edo period (18th-19th century), signed Myochin saku (made by Myochin) The russet-iron hermit crab finely constructed of numerous hammered plates jointed inside the body; the antennae, limbs, claws and fins move, the details finely carved and chiseled, signature on body 5 ? in. (14 cm.) long
An iron articulated sculpture of a hermit crab Edo period (18th-19th century), signed Myochin saku (made by Myochin) The russet-iron hermit crab finely constructed of numerous hammered plates jointed inside the body; the antennae, limbs, claws and fins move, the details finely carved and chiseled, signature on body 5 ? in. (14 cm.) long