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Lot 18

ORENTAL ART
YAMANAKA & CO. [Sale catalogues] Oriental Art. The Entire Stock, 3 vol.; The Yamanaka Library, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944 (4)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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ORENTAL ART

YAMANAKA & CO. [Sale catalogues] Oriental Art. The Entire Stock of the New York Store with Additions from the Chicago Store... By order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, 3 vol., marked up with prices in pencil throughout; The Yamanaka Library on Far Eastern Art... Removed from the New York and Boston Stores, together 4 vol., original grey wrappers printed in red and black, 8vo and large 8vo, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944

Footnotes

Yamanaka & Co. were preeminent Asian art dealers in New York, acknowledged by the New York Met as one of the main sources of its early Asian art collection. The seizure and enforced liquidation of the stock was part of a programme of closures of Japanese-American businesses during World War II. A fourth volume of garden sculptures was also issued.

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