Catalogue of rare and superb collection of antique clocks, armors and musical instruments from Japan and China
This 1904 sale catalogue from Boston publisher Leonard & Co. offers antique clocks, armour and musical instruments from Japan and China, formerly owned by collector Charles Lang Freer and handled by Yamanaka & Company. The pages are photographic plates of objects, numbered for buyers. The pictures show fittings and mounts that a designer could take as reference for ornamental metalwork, with the clock frames and iron plates showing pierced scrollwork, cusped openings and repeating motifs.
