Lot 347
GROUP OF FOUR JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER PHOTOGRAPHS
BY HANBEH MIZUNO (1852-1920)
Auction: 10 September 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
橫濱水野 金漆鎌倉大佛及肖像照（共四件）
largest one titled and depicting ‘Daibutsu at Kamakura’; two portraits of a Western gentleman; and a child's portrait, all on black wooden panel (4)
Dimensions
largest: 30.2cm x 39.6cm
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Perthshire; the gentleman depicted in two images of this lot was Samuel Jackson, who lived in Japan and brought these photographs back before 1891, thence by descent.
Footnote
Back of three portraits each with a stamp ‘IENVENTOR BY H. MIZUNO. 發明人橫濱水野 YOKOHAMA, JAPAN’