May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JAPAN & CHINA)
Album with ornate lacquer covers containing 32 photographs of Japan and 18 of China, with views of landscapes and temples, and examples of footbinding, torture and execution. Albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted; a few with a caption, in English, and an inventory number in the negative and one with hand-coloring. Oblong folio, black and red lacquer, ivory and gilt inlay depicting (in relief) a geisha by window; all edges gilt. 1880s