Photo Album of Osaka and Kobe with Gold Lacquer -detail Decorated Cover (cover detail)

Photo Album of Osaka and Kobe with Gold Lacquer -detail Decorated Cover (cover detail)

Arts; Arts-Decorative Arts;

H: 10.75", W: 14", D: 2.25".Exterior relief design of geese and flora with stream on front; Ivory and mother-of-pearl inlay; back decorated with insects and plants in gold leather spine; hand tinted photographs of places, mainly in Osaka and Kobe, Japan. Inside inscription reads: "Presented to N.W. Utley and Wife by Rev. C.B. Moseley; Aug 9, 1890, Kobe, Japan"

Berea College

Materials may be used for educational, non-commercial purposes only. Acknowledgement to be given to the ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project and to the college from whose collection the work comes. The individual college retains copyright to the work.

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Japan

Japan - Meiji 1868 - 1912

circa 1890

900 w x 676 h, 72 ppi