Lot 1507 , Henri L. Joly. 'W. L. Behrens Collection', four catalogues, Part I Netsuke, Part II Lacquer and Inro, Part III Sword Fittings, Glendening and Co., Ltd., MCMXIII-MCMXIV (1913-14), complete with prices obtained booklets

° Henri L. Joly. 'W. L. Behrens Collection', four catalogues, Part I Netsuke, Part II Lacquer and Inro, Part III Sword Fittings, Glendening and Co., Ltd., MCMXIII-MCMXIV (1913-14), complete with prices obtained booklets ex Libris Gregory Irvine.
Gregory Irvine was Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and held the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow. His expertise was in Japanese metalwork, arms, armour with a particular focus on cloisonné enamels.
• Honorary Curator, Khalili Collection, Japanese Art of the Meiji period
• Advisor to Brill Publications Journal of Japonisme
• 2012-13: V&A/ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Exchange Fellow
• 2008: Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Visiting Professor
• 2007-8: University of Sussex/V&A Exchange Fellow
• 2006: Nehru Trust Fellow

Gregory Irvine’s publications include -
Meiji, Splendors of Imperial Japan, 1868-1912 (contributor). Musée des Arts asiatiques–Guimet, 2019
Namikawa Yasuyuki and Japanese Cloisonné. The Allure of Meiji Cloisonné: the Aesthetic of Translucent Black Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2017, Contributor and co-curator
Beyond Imagination: Treasures of Imperial Japan from the Khalili Collection 19th to early 20th century (contributor). Moscow Kremlin Museums, 2017
Japanese Art and Design, (Ed. & contributor) V&A Publishing, 2016
The Dresden State Art Collections: collecting Japan in the 19th Century Arts of Asia, 2014
The Presentation, perception and collecting of Japanese Art in nineteenth century France in Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh... Japanese Inspirations, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2014
Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: the Arts of the Meiji period, Thames and Hudson, 2013
Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, V&A Publishing, 2011
Collecting Japanese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts of Asia, Volume 39, Number 4, 2009
The Hayashi Revisions revised: Hayashi Tadamasa and the Japanese Art Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1886, in ‘Hayashi Tadamasa: Japonisme and Cultural Exchange’: Tokyo 2006
Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK, Hotei Publications/Japan Society, 2004
The Japanese Sword, the Soul of the Samurai, V&A Publications, London, 2000
£300-500

Condition:
The first section of the Sword Fittings part III, fascicule I, has staining to the blue paper cover. The front [blank?] page of each catalogue has been torn out. The outer blue cloth box folder is probably later and is pasted with a leather title, which is scuffed.