CCP Gamera Head Bust with Tusks, Grey Hide and Rock Diorama Base, Sold as Found for Restoration
CCP Gamera Head Bust with Tusks, Grey Hide and Rock Diorama Base, Sold as Found for Restoration
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The Guardian, Jaws Open
As a head study the sculpture puts all its force into texture, teeth and tusk, and the hide is worked with real conviction. The base needs patient work, but the bust itself is a commanding display piece.
Best for: Gamera collectors and restorers
Condition notes
Described as poor overall and offered as found. Rock fragments detached from the base; completeness not guaranteed.
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A display bust of Gamera's head, jaws open and tusks raised, with its rock-strewn diorama base: a substantial kaiju sculpture offered honestly as a restoration piece.
The Piece
Gamera, Daiei's giant guardian turtle, is shown here as a fierce head study rather than a full figure. The sculpt is the strength of the piece: a dark grey hide worked in dense, pebbled texture, a crest of jagged spines sweeping back over the skull, deep furrows around the eye, and a long ivory tusk rising from each side of the jaw, shaded from cream to warm amber at the root. The mouth is open on rows of pale teeth over a dark red interior, and the eyes are set in glossy green.
The base is a dark oval plinth carrying a grey, cratered ground with two cream egg-like forms and locating pins for the head. A quantity of sculpted rock fragments, made to build up the ground around the bust, has come away and is included loose.
The page names the maker as CCP and also mentions Kokuryu Kobo; it does not name the film.
Details
- Maker: CCP (Kokuryu Kobo also named)
- Character: Gamera
- Film or series: Daiei's Gamera series (no single film is named)
- Form: head bust with diorama base and loose rock parts
- Size: please ask the Desk for exact measurements
- Packaging: none; bust, base and loose parts only
Condition
- Described as being in poor overall condition and offered as found.
- The rock fragments have separated from the base and will need re-fixing.
- Completeness is not guaranteed; parts may be missing.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade D (poor, for restoration) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Keep the sculpture away from direct sun and heat, and handle the spines and tusks with care.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan, with the loose parts wrapped separately, and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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