Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(KIMBEI, KUSAKABE)
Elegant Japanese lacquer album with 50 hand-colored photographs, including intimate views of gardens, sweeping landscapes, bustling street scenes, portraits of geishas and ancient temples. Hand-colored albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.) and the reverse, mounted; the original tissue guards; each with a caption and inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, pictorial black lacquer boards with ivory inlay and gilt highlights, all edges gilt. Circa 1890