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Surveys of Japanese Art by Medium
Lacquer and Enamel
The standard work on lacquer is Beatrix von Ragué, A History of
Japanese Lacquerwork, translated by Annie R. de Wasserman (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1976). Works on single collections are inevitably less comprehensive,
but still of value. Ann Yonemura, Japanese Lacquer (Washington, D.C.: Freer
Gallery, 1979) illustrates and discusses some 50 pieces in the Freer Gallery (chiefly
Tokugawa, but also two important early lacquer sculptures); Barbara Ford treats some
80 pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan
Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991). Additional titles are listed under the Tokugawa
or Edo period.
For enamels, chiefly of the Tokugawa period, see George Kuwayama, Shippo:
The Art of Enameling in Japan (Los Angeles: Far Eastern Art Council, 1987), a
catalogue of 71 objects, with an introductory survey.
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