May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
KIMBEI, KUSAKABE (1841-1934)
Album containing 50 hand-colored photographs of Japan, in beautiful lacquer covers, with views of landscapes and temples, studies of geishas and other occupationals. Delicately hand-tinted albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted, all with the original tissue guards; with a caption, in English, and an inventory number in the negative on all but one; Kimbei's hand stamp appears on the front pastedown. Oblong folio, red lacquer with sketches of birds sitting on delicate tree branches in black; all edges gilt. 1880s