Shishi and other netsuke

The Collection of Harriet Szechenyi

ISBN: 978-0-9535733-0-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Long-time collector Harriet Szechenyi concentrated on collecting netsuke of animals and celestial beings. These beautiful miniature art objects have been described at length by Rosemary Bandini. This richly illustrated book shows the reader some fine examples of this beautiful Japanese art form. The appendix contains pictures of the signatures found on the netsuke, a very useful guide to the collector.

This title was originally published in 1999, by Rosemary Bandini, London, Hotei Publishing has sole distribution rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bandini, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Handwerk

Über Autor(innen)

graduate in modern languages, Rosemary Bandini first came into contact with Japanese art when working for Neil Davey in the Japanese Department of Sotheby’s London. While working there she met and later married Luigi Bandini, a leading dealer in Japanese art. Following her marriage she collaborated with him in producing catalogues for exhibitions at London’s Eskenazi galleries, taking over his job and producing two further exhibition catalogues at Eskenazi following his untimely death in 1996. She now works independently as a dealer in Japanese art.