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UMEHARA SUEJI (1893-1983). Shina kodo Seikwa, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.
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UMEHARA SUEJI (1893-1983). Shina kodo Seikwa, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.
3 parts in 7 volumes, 2/so (397 x 312 mm). Text in Japanese, German and English, 548 photographic plates (including one plate laid in to the portfolio for Part 2, Volume 1, marginally stained). Original olive cloth with green stylized painted design, ties on spine, silk label with Japanese writing in red and black, edges gilt; green cloth folding portfolios with silk labels and clasps (light rubbing and fading, spines of folding cases faded, writing in pencil on portfolio labels, hole in burlap on portfolio for Volume 1 Part 2, labels scotch-taped to spines of some portfolios).
In 1933, the Japanese scholar Umehara Sueji (1893-1983), who taught in the Department of Archaeology, Kyoto University, completed Shina kodo Seikwa, a seven-volume work in which he recorded Chinese bronzes in European and American collections during his three-year stay in Europe and the United States, from early 1926 to the spring of 1929.
3 parts in 7 volumes, 2/so (397 x 312 mm). Text in Japanese, German and English, 548 photographic plates (including one plate laid in to the portfolio for Part 2, Volume 1, marginally stained). Original olive cloth with green stylized painted design, ties on spine, silk label with Japanese writing in red and black, edges gilt; green cloth folding portfolios with silk labels and clasps (light rubbing and fading, spines of folding cases faded, writing in pencil on portfolio labels, hole in burlap on portfolio for Volume 1 Part 2, labels scotch-taped to spines of some portfolios).
In 1933, the Japanese scholar Umehara Sueji (1893-1983), who taught in the Department of Archaeology, Kyoto University, completed Shina kodo Seikwa, a seven-volume work in which he recorded Chinese bronzes in European and American collections during his three-year stay in Europe and the United States, from early 1926 to the spring of 1929.
Provenance
Dr. E. A. Voretzsch (gift inscription from Sadajiro Yamanaka, author of the Preface).
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