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239 - Photo album of Japan. C. 1870-1890 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, approx. 19,5 x 25,3 cm, mounted on cardboard recto-verso,numb. and captions in the images. Folio album, polychrome lacquered wooden binding with ivory-like inlay and gold-painted relief patterns (lacking parts and cracks on the cover, worn and foxing inside). Sites and views: Nikko, Oswa park, Shimonoseki, Nagasaki harbour, Tokyo, Yokohama, Swayama, Shinko-ji, Miyajima (Itsukushima), Kyoto, Obama, Kamakura, Kobe, rice plantation, the Great Buddha of Kamakura, Fuji from Hakone lake, Nakasima tea house, etc. Indoor scenes featuring young women wearing traditional kimonos (tea ceremony, coiffure, playing games, cooking, spining silk, carried in a sedan chair...) and merchant of plants, manufacturer of umbrellas and shamisen (traditional Japanese musical instrument).

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€300 - 400

Sale fees

30%

Photo album of Japan. C. 1870-1890 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, approx. 19,5 x 25,3 cm, mounted on cardboard recto-verso,numb. and captions in the images. Folio album, polychrome lacquered wooden binding with ivory-like inlay and gold-painted relief patterns (lacking parts and cracks on the cover, worn and foxing inside). Sites and views: Nikko, Oswa park, Shimonoseki, Nagasaki harbour, Tokyo, Yokohama, Swayama, Shinko-ji, Miyajima (Itsukushima), Kyoto, Obama, Kamakura, Kobe, rice plantation, the Great Buddha of Kamakura, Fuji from Hakone lake, Nakasima tea house, etc. Indoor scenes featuring young women wearing traditional kimonos (tea ceremony, coiffure, playing games, cooking, spining silk, carried in a sedan chair...) and merchant of plants, manufacturer of umbrellas and shamisen (traditional Japanese musical instrument).

Auction details

Prints & drawings, photographs, comics
Wednesday, December 2
01:00 PM
rue aux Laines, 19/2
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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Arenberg Auctions +3225441055 info@arenbergauctions.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 49,000 lots published

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