UMEHARA SUEJI (1893-1983). Shina Kodo Seika, 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 Seika, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.

3 parts in 7 volumes, 2^o (397 x 312 mm). Text in Japanese, German and English, 547 photographic plates (light browning). 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 (hinges of folding portfolios just splitting, some reinforced, spines of portfolios faded). Provenance: Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (Presentation bookplate and inscription from the publisher); Gettie J. Holmes (bookplate).
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In 1933, the Japanese scholar Umehara Sueji (1893-1983), who taught in the Department of Archaeology, Kyoto University, completed Shina Kodo Seika, 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.

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