A Large World War II Period Imperial Japanese ‘Meatball’ Good Luck Prayer Flag c.1935 sub-Curios It was a place alive

It was a place alive with "monsters" and it was a place where learned pigs mixed with giants and dwarfs and where most people saw "exotic" animals for the first time

spins and spirals based on Alan Cobham’s hugely successful flying circus

The condition of the artwork proves delicate but stable

each set of bowls was made from the same log of lignum vitae

A Large World War II Period Imperial Japanese ‘Meatball’ Good Luck Prayer Flag c.1935 sub-Curios It was a place aliveOrigin: Japanese Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1935 40 Height: 28. 75 inches Width: 42. 5 inches The good luck in battle praying flag army with leather applied corners and fabric cords, signed in black ink with the names of the soldiers and good luck idioms for the soldiers such as devotion, bravery and loyalty survives from World War II period Japan. Wonderfully tactile and soft to the touch there is much discolouring