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65 UMEHARA SUEJI (1893-1983), NIHON
86 SOTHEBY’S SHUCHO SHINA KODO SEIKA; SELECTED
RELICS OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES
FROM COLLECTIONS IN JAPAN, VOLS I -
VI, OSAKA, 1959-1964

Yamanaka & Company, original olive cloth with green
stylized painted design, ties on spine, silk label inscribed
in Japanese, green silk folding portfolios with silk labels
and clasps, 537 photographic plates (6)

These six volumes, compiled by the Japanese scholar
Umehara Sueji (1893-1983), a professor at the
Department of Archaeology, Kyoto University, was
published as a companion to the 7-volume Bei Shucho
Shina Koda Seika, which was published in 1933 and
illustrates Chinese archaic bronzes in European and
American collections, o ered as lot 65 in this sale.

$ 10,000-12,000

1893 1983
1959 1964

65

UMEHARA SUEJI (1893-1983), SHINA
KODO SEIKA; SELECTED RELICS OF
ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES FROM
COLLECTIONS IN EUROPE AND
AMERICA, 4 VOLS, OSAKA, 1933

Yamanaka & Company, original olive cloth with green
stylized painted design, ties on spine, silk label inscribed
in Japanese, green silk folding portfolios with silk labels
and clasps, originally three parts in seven volumes, now
comprising Part I, vols I-III and Part III, vol. I (4)

$ 3,000-5,000

1893 1983
1933