144 - JAPAN

JAPAN Album containing seven black-and-white and color postcards depicting women of high social standing. Each of the twenty pages is adorned with a color painting on silk, depicting flowers and birds, seascapes with boats, and Mount Fuji. Black-and-gold lacquered cover with bone inlay decoration (Havers system visible), depicting a woman of high social standing in a jinrikisha. Japan, 1900s–1930s. Album dimensions: 27.2 x 35 cm. (Missing sections on the cover; postcards: wear, foxing, some with postage; some marked “Universal Postal Union, postcard”; paintings: water stains, wear)