Japanese art objects, curios, textiles, etc., etc. : collected by Kichigoro Suzuki, Tokyo
This is an 1898 auction catalogue from the American Art Association in New York, listing Japanese art objects, curios and textiles collected by Kichigoro Suzuki of Tokyo, offered to American buyers and collectors. The pictures are plain black-and-white photographs of single objects on neutral grounds: a carved bronze vessel with a relief of a bird and branches, a pair of bronze figures and a censer, a cloisonne enamel bowl on a carved stand, and a cover with openwork sword guards, each captioned with a catalogue number. A designer could take from them the dense ornamental relief, pierced metal patterns and cloisonne bands used in Japanese decorative metalwork.
