Snapshots of the Past

Hand-colored photograph of Japanese ceramics, armour and lacquerware display – Vintage Photo Print

Hand-colored photograph of Japanese ceramics, armour and lacquerware display — historic photograph
Hand-colored photograph of Japanese ceramics, armour and lacquerware display. Historic photograph from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic photograph captures Hand-colored photograph of Japanese ceramics, armour and lacquerware display in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Hand-colored photograph of Japanese ceramics, armour and lacquerware display

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Rather than a single famous object, this picture gathers a whole range of Japanese craft into one arrangement: ceramics, armour and lacquerware set out together as a display. Hand-coloring was a common finishing step on photographs of this kind, when studio workers painted tints onto the printed image to suggest the glaze of pottery, the red and black of lacquer and the metal of armour. Such views were widely sold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Japanese arts drew strong interest from Western collectors and museum visitors. Look closely at the layered textures and the careful grouping, which tell you as much about how these objects were presented to foreign audiences as about the objects themselves.

Original scan4,483 × 3,587 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
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