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Collection of Japanese & Chinese ceramics & textiles

Various

Various items including: 1) Kutani ware dish painted with an eagle, 2) Red Kaga bowl with a lion among chrysantemums inside, 3) Red Kaga dish with pomegranates in red and gold, 4) 2 large octagonal gold lacquer boxes with tasselled silk cords and contents, 5) Circular red Chinese lacquer box with figures in landscape, 6) 11 various Chinese and Japanese textiles/costumes, 7) 18 lacquer trays and bowls, 8) other miscellaneous items including chopsticks, model elephants, a Persian lacquer box, statuettes, gold-lacquered ostrich egg, and a China tea set.

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Date supported

1949

Gifted by

W B Sutherland

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