Japanese enamels, with illustrations from the examples in the Bowes collection

Author James Lord Bowes British

On View Gallery Watson Library

Bowes, a wealthy wool broker and prolific collector, wrote, “no words can do justice to the splendor of (the) assemblage of (Japanese) art objects” at the 1867 Paris Exposition, where he acquired his first Japanese objects. He continued to collect choice Japanese works as they arrived in Europe between 1867 and 1872. He opened his home to the public, thereby creating the first museum of Japanese Art in the Western World. Edward Moore had a particular interest in Japanese enamels as he had begun studying enameling on silver as early as the 1860s.

Japanese enamels, with illustrations from the examples in the Bowes collection, James Lord Bowes (British, 1834–1899)

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Japanese enamels, with illustrations from the examples in the Bowes collection, James Lord Bowes (British, 1834–1899)
Japanese enamels, with illustrations from the examples in the Bowes collection, James Lord Bowes (British, 1834–1899)

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