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Catalogue of ancient and medieval pewters of China and Japan, old wood carvings, rare helmets & famous blades also stone garden ornaments and other objects of interest : gathered on a recent visit to Japan by Bunkio Matsuki

John J. Henry & Co, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · 1905 · Boston : John J. Henry & Co. · 10 pictures

A 1905 sale catalogue issued in Boston by John J. Henry & Co., listing Japanese and Chinese antiquities gathered by dealer Bunkio Matsuki for collectors, with former owner Charles Lang Freer noted. The pictures are rotated black-and-white photographs of stone garden lanterns and basins, weathered temple-style stone ornaments, and carved wooden panels with scrolling brackets, useful to a designer for studying traditional Japanese stonework, carved ornament and aged surface texture.

Matsuki, Bunkio, 1867-1940

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