ANONYMOUS COMPILER. Komon chō. (Sold)
Artist:
Anonymous compiler
Title:
Komon chō (Collection of small patterns). One volume, complete.
Description:
A sample book with 90 numbered textile samples with small decorative designs (komon) printed by stencil (katagami) on paper, mounted on 45 pages.
Date:
ca. 1870-1890.
Size:
16x21 cm
Medium:
Color stencil printing.
Literature:
For a discussion on this kind of book see the chapter by Nagasaki Iwao, Designs for a Thousand Ages: Printed Pattern Books and Kosode in Gluckman & Takeda, When Art Became Fashion Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. New York 1992, p.111-112.
Conditions:
The cover rubbed otherwise in very good conditions.
Item no:
MT 16
Status:
Sold