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Attractive early 19th-century watercolour illustration of the highest Dutch official on Deshima, Japan, together with his wife Titia, one of the first western women in Japan

[WATERCOLOUR - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [Portrait of Jan Cocq Blomhoff and his wife Titia Bergsma on Deshima, Japan].
[Japan, ca. 1817 or later]. Drawing size ca. 56.5 x 25.5 cm; frame size ca. 74.5 x 40.5 cm. Watercolour and ink drawing, partly highlighted with white water paint and gouache, on paper. In a passepartout and framed. Full description
€ 7,500
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Lovely rare Japanese sale catalogue of lilies with 40 chromolithographs plus another on the front wrapper

[YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO. - YOKOHAMA UEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA]. Lilies of Japan.
Yokohama, Japan, The Yokohama Nursery Company, November 1907. 4to (26 x 18.5 cm). With XXXX numbered magnificent chromolithographed plates of lilies. Chromolithographed wrappers with an arrangement of lilies and the title "Lilies of Japan" on the front, side-stitched in Japanese manner with black yarn through 2 pair of holes. [3], XXXX [=40], [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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