VTG Freer Gallery of Art China Japan 2 Vol Set Large Format Smithsonian Book HB

This is the two-volume set The Freer Gallery of Art: I China and II Japan, compiled by the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., produced by Kodansha Ltd. and printed in Japan. Each oversized volume (approximately 15 x 11) is richly illustrated with full-page color and black-and-white plates of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Freer's world-renowned Asian art collection, with texts by curators Harold P. Stern and Thomas Lawton. Each is in a paper cover and a cardboard slipcover case. Volume I covers Chinese works, Volume II covers Japanese works, both with pictorial cloth covers featuring classical painting details. A comprehensive, museum-quality reference set for collectors of Asian art, Chinese and Japanese painting, or Smithsonian institutional history.