Oct 19, 2010 - Sale 2226

Sale 2226 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(JAPAN)
Beautiful album containing 50 views, including geishas, lush landscapes, studies of gardens and temples, street scenes, occupationals and grand views. Hand-colored mounted albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm), and the reverse, with the original tissue guards, many with the caption in English and inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, ornate black lacquer covers depicting a women and child with ivory and mother of pearl inlay, a gilt landscape and lotus blossoms; all edges gilt; in the original cloth-covered box. Circa 1890