Property of a Beverly Hills Estate MIYAO EISUKE (ACTIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY)A Bronze Model of a Samurai Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1880-1890 Cast in two shades of bronze as a samurai drawing his sword, the tassets and shoulder guards of his armor shown moving in response to the action, the cuirass decorated with a coiling water dragon and his sleeves and trousers decorated with phoenixes, dragons, and paulownia flowers, signed on the back of the left leg Miyao seizō , set on a wood stand decorated with stylized dragons and scrolling vines in gold hiramaki-e 15 3/4in (40cm) high (figure only), 19 5/8in (49.8cm) high overall None