Japanese, Meiji-Period (1868-1912), replica of another sculpture from the 12the century.
It's always fascinating to me how different the pictorial language is (and how little we intuitively understand how much e.g. anime are drawing from a rich cultural pictorial background that we neither know nor understand in Europe).
This was a large modern artwork by Morita Shiryū. I do not speak or read Japanese, but this one was deeply touching, I spend some time sitting in front of it, contemplating.
And last but not least, I have this eternal fascination with things that look modern but are old - this jug is something I'd love to be a part of my everyday ceramics collections. Of course, it will never be and should not be, given how it's from the 8. or 9. century ...
@LDJ aww, enjoy! The museum is overall a bit dated (they really could contexttualize things a bit more), but it's still very much worth visiting! They should also have a really nice special exhibition by then for which I was a few days too early ...
@Lyle ooooh, nice! I don't know my way around Chinese art objects enough for that (I may be able to tell ukiyo-e artists apart, but also that not always) 😅
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