Author: ROORDA, T.B. & M. W. DE VISSER (INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY TEXT).
Title: Tentoonstelling van Japansch Lakwerk in het Rijks Ethnographisch Museum te Leiden vanaf 15 December 1916. [Originele uitgave, oritinal edition].
Description: Haarlem, [TYP] J.A. Boom, 1916. Small 4°, original printed wrappers, stapled. 15pp. With 14 captioned black/white illustrations in text featuring specimens of lacquered boxes, Inros, decorated wall-panels, table of numerical references with japanese names (in latin) script. Dutch language illustrated guide and introduction to an exhibition of antique Japanese Lacquered objects as Inro, boxes, etc., as held at the Stave Ethnographical Museum Leiden 15 Cecember, and onwards. Includes a historic and aesthetic introduction by T.B. Roorda and a contribution ny M.W. De Visser in which ornamentation to lacquered objects is explaine. Good copy. Difficult to locate, rather scarce.

Keywords: lacquerware inro antique guide exhibition ethnography culture heritage legacy asia far east lakwerk