Illustrated catalogue of an exceedingly important collection of artistic Oriental objects and decorative art, which the owners have been three years in assembling [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the owners, the well-known house of Yamanaka & Co., New York, Japan, China, London, on the afternoons and evening herein stated (1921)

American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Parke, H. H, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 49

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