Satsuma ware vases, bowls, and urns, depicted in an extensive sketchbook of detailed but unsigned watercolors, each numbered and presented as in a catalogue.

      - [N.p.: probably the last quarter of the 19th century]. An oblong sketchbook comprising drawings of 95 items upon 93 thin Japanese paper leaves, executed in ink, watercolor, guache, and gilt; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Nineteenth century marbled boards, stitched at the spine. Boards rubbed and worn, spine restitched and two small pieces of cellophane tape applied; many leaves slightly worn at edges, some chipped, a few with loss beyond the edges and touching the image, one with loss of the number at the foot, one detached (and fragments of two additional drawings laid in), but images generally fine. A collection of detailed, Satsuma-ware watercolor drawings, most with guache and gilt to effect the "brocaded" surfaces of the pottery, numbered from 2 to 100 (no. 1 and four others are missing, a no. 105 is laid in, three numbered images are drawn on one leaf). Inside front cover is inscribed in ink: Property of Bert Raskin, 28 Porter Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Perhaps this served as an importer's or retailer's sale catalogue, perhaps as a collector's. Produced in southern Japan from the 17th century, Satsuma ware achieved considerable popularity among western collectors after the establishment of active trade there in the mid-19th century. (1520). [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]