An Attractive Painted Ivory Inlayed Lacquered Album With 6 Leaves Containing 48 Postcards.
£200.00
Place
Japan
Date
No date but c 1910
Synopsis
The cards depict scenes in japan, malaya, ceylon, and the holy land. each page has 4 cards.
Item Description
Large 14 x 11 inches, black lacquered purpose made photograph album decorated with a hand drawn view of mount Fuji in red and gold with a rickshaw racing across the foreground with a lady seated inside. The head of the rickshaw driver and his passenger are carved in ivory or bone and inlayed. Inside the album each of the 12 pages and the endpapers are decorated with hand painted watercolour designs of birds and flowers or landscapes. The post cards are ethnographic, depicting people, tradesmen, events, and landscapes. A lovely album with interesting content.
[Stock No. 28115]
