Catalogue of Extraordinary Collection of Japanese Ivory Carvings Made by the Late Joseph B. Stearns and Ivory Carvings and Chinese Porcelains Collected by the Late Henry T. Cox

Catalogue of Extraordinary Collection of Japanese Ivory Carvings Made by the Late Joseph B. Stearns and Ivory Carvings and Chinese Porcelains Collected by the Late Henry T. Cox

Author: American Art Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780331187779

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Extraordinary Collection of Japanese Ivory Carvings Made by the Late Joseph B. Stearns and Ivory Carvings and Chinese Porcelains Collected by the Late Henry T. Cox: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale on Friday and Saturday Afternoons, April 19th and 20th, at 3 O'clock, at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South /é' Three J apanese warriors. Height, 3 inches.3l - ivory group. /j> w J apanese woman punishing imp. Height, Ql/z inches. 32 - ivory group. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Author: M. Chaiklin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1137363339

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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.