Product Description: The 107 examples of Japanese cloisonne enamels reproduced here offer an unrivalled panorama of achievement centred around the work of three artists: Namikawa Yasuyuki, Namikawa Sosuke and Ando Jubei. These enamels compare more than favourably with the work of the famous Russian Carl Faberge...read more

Product Description: The world's greatest collection of Meiji decorative arts of the period 1868-1912 is here published in its entirety in nine handsome volumes. It comprises over 2000 works of Metalwork, Enamels, Lacquer and Ceramics by most of the known masters of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This two-part volume introduces 161 examples of metalwork, from monumental bronzes more than two meters high and outsize iron salvers overlaid with gold to tiny ornaments in silver and the patinated bronze alloys known as shaukdo and shibuchi...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).

Product Description: This, the first of two volumes of the Khalili Collection to cover ceramics, focuses on porcelain. It is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.

Product Description: Lacquer is the most characteristically Japanese of all the arts and this two-part volume describes the pieces in the Khalili Collection. The volume is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.

Product Description: Nineteenth Century Japanese decorative arts from the collection of John R Young of Dallas, Texas. The only book in print in English on late 19th century Japanese decorative art. Includes the finest examples of Japanese art and craftsmanship in metalwork, cloisonne enamel and Shibayama lacquer from the Meiji period: 1868--1912...read more

Discusses Japanese pottery and its role in Japanese culture

Product Description: Different from European lacquers, those of China and Japan come from an indigenous tree; the making of painted, raised, carved and inlaid lacquers.