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Niko-Niko Fabric Sample Book

1930-1965

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Niko-Niko Fabric Sample Book

1930-1965

Physical Qualities Cotton, paper/board, gilding, 10 × 24 1/4 × 1/4 in. (25.4 × 61.6 × 0.6 cm.)
Credit Line Jeffrey Krauss Collection of Japanese Textiles
Object Number 2017.426
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2017; Jeff Krauss, Potomac, MD, by purchase, 2008 or 2015; Ichiroya (online retailer), Osaka

Inscribed: Printed in gilded Japanese characters on the front cover of the book: [Untranslated inscription]. See photo.

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