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Total number of records: 19

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items10
Textiles9

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
International Textile Collection9
Liddle Collection2
Art and Antique Market1
Brotherton Collection1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
LGBTQ1
Leeds Animation Workshop1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
animated films1
eastern question (far east)1
english poetry1
film festivals1
furniture1
world war, 1939-19451

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Japan19
Asia2
India2
Iran2
Turkey2
China1
County Mayo (Ireland)1
Dublin (Ireland)1
Fukuoka1
Great Britain1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Everard, Edmund3
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689)3
Phillips, John (1631-1706)2
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-16892
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Buchanan, William (1932-)1
Corman, Cid1
Durcan, Paul (1944-)1
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum1
Henry, George, 1858-19431

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Earliest dateCount
From 16003
From 18002
From 19007
From 20004

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Up to 16993
Up to 199910
Up to latest5

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A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious, of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne : Not printed among his first six voyages. : Divided into five parts... [etc]

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689); Everard, Edmund

1680

First edition. Advertisements: first leaf and [2] p. at end. Head-pieces; initials; ornaments. Title within double line border. Parts 3-5 correspond to the second collation and pagination. C...

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Back roads to far towns : Basho's travel journal

Matsuo, Bashō (1644-1694); Corman, Cid; Kamaike, Susumu

[1986]

Includes Japanese text.

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The art of life

Durcan, Paul (1944-)

2004

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Textile

Examples of Japanese Art in Silk Brocade

before 1909

A collection of samples of Japanese silk brocade fabric concertina bound on thick cardboard pages. The names of the manufacturer and a previous owner have been added using a brush and ink.

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Mr Henry and Mr Hornel visit Japan : an exhibition and inventory of the paintings produced as a result of their visit in 1893-94 together with photographs, documents and other related material

Buchanan, William (1932-); Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum; Scottish Arts Council Gallery; McLaurin Art Gallery; Scottish Arts Council

[1979]

Catalogue of an exhibition shown at Glasgow in the Art Gallery from 2nd December 1978 to 14 January 1979, Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, 3rd February to 11th March 1979, Ayr, McLaurin Art G...

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Traditional Japanese furniture

Koizumi, Kazuko (1933-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1986

Map on lining papers. Includes index. pt. 1: Furniture and furnishings. Cabinetry; Partition devices ; Floor coverings ; Seating and bedding ; Lighting devices ; Heating devices ; Writing and study ...

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Great Britain and Japan, 1911-15 : a study of British Far Eastern policy

Lowe, Peter (1941-2012)

1969

Based on author's thesis, University of Wales.

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Textile

stencilled tenugui

Sankatsu

c. 2018

A length of cream material with a pink and green cherry blossom design (sakura) made using a stencil. This is known as a Tenugui. The short sides are left unfinished.

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The rising sun

Zich, Arthur; Time-Life Books

c1977

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 204.

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Textile

coaster

A padded coaster with different designs on each side. One side is a brown plaid and the other a brocade landscape or garden with figures in kimono, with gold thread. The coaster is packaged in plas...

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embroidered fragment
Textile

embroidered fragment

before 2000

Fragment of brown, woven fabric with an embroidered design in yellow-brown of lozenges and circles possibly representing auspicious objects, one circle has a stylised hemp leaf patterning in green thr...

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