Oct 19, 2006 - Sale 2089

Sale 2089 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAPAN
Beautiful black lacquer-bound album containing 50 hand-tinted studies of the Japanese landscape and people, including classic scenes of Sumo Wrestlers, Cherry Blossoms in Spring, geishas bathing and working, and views of the city of Kyoto. Hand-colored albumen prints, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x24.2 cm.), flush mounted, most captioned and numbered in the negative. Oblong folio, black lacquer with gilted scenes of a lotus, Mt. Fuji and a pagoda, edgewear, backstrip detached; all edges gilt. 1890s