Descriptive catalogue of an important keramic collection of Japanese and Chinese pottery, porcelain, bronzes, lacquers, brocade, prints, embroideries, kakemono, screens, ethnological and buddhist objects selected by Mr. Bunkio Matsuki of Kobe, Japan, and Boston
A sale catalogue published in Philadelphia in 1898 by Davis and Harvey's Galleries, listing Japanese and Chinese pottery, bronzes, lacquers, prints and embroideries assembled by Bunkio Matsuki of Kobe for prospective buyers and collectors. Its photographic plates show silk hangings with blossoming branches and birds, a dark bottle-shaped vase on a carved stand, and a framed painting of birds, offering a designer examples of East Asian motifs in composition and tonal contrast.
