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Indonesian Art in 1901: Colonial Exhibition Portfolio

Original title : Indonesian Art. Selected Specimens of Ancient and Modern Art...1901

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1901
48 x 35 cm
60 p.
Cloth
Plates
First edition

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Date: 1901
Format: 48 x 35 cm
Pagination: 60 p.
Binding: Cloth
Illustrations: Plates
Edition: First edition

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25 missing)
Cloth-backed board portfolio with slightly rubbed corners

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PLEYTE, C.M. Indonesian Art. Selected Specimens of Ancient and Modern Art and Handwork from the Dutch Indian Archipelago. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1901. First edition. Large folio, 48 x 35 cm., 60 pp. & 24 fine collotype plates (plate no. 25 missing). Cloth-backed board portfolio with slightly rubbed corners. Interior clean. Depicts ancient Javanese sculpture and ethnographic artifacts from across the Dutch East Indies. Published for the Amsterdam colonial exhibition. Plates feature wooden statuettes, gold and bronze Buddhas, idols, weapons, shawls, cotton paintings, puppets, and more from Bali, Java, Sumba, Damar, and Borneo.

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Pleyte, C.M.
Indonesian Art. Selected Specimens of Ancient and Modern Art and Handwork from the Dutch Indian Archipelago.

The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, 1901. First edition Large folio, 48 x 35 cm., 60 pp. & 24 fine collotype plates (the last plate : n°25 is missing), cloth-backed board portfolio slighly rubbed on corners, inside clean.

The Dutch colony of Indonesia, portraying both ancient Javanese sculpture and ethnographic artefacts from throughout the archipelago. Published to coincide with the colonial exhibition in Amsterdam. the p
lates depict wooden statuettes, gold and bronze Buddhas, idols, weapons, shawls, paintings on cotton, puppets and so on from Bali, Java, Sumba, Damar and Borneo.