ALL THE WAY FROM JAPAN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2

ALL THE WAY FROM JAPAN.

■ — ~» — A* manufacturer* of artistic furniture the Japanese have many inferior* but few superiors. An exceptionally fine collection of ware now on view in the auotion room* of J. H. Bethun* ft Co. is attracting much attention. Some of theartiole* are very teautdful and rare, Deing tho products of Japanese artists in their quaintest moods, particularly two handsome lacquer screens— one inlaid with floral and other deigns in mother-of-pearl and ivory, and the other band-pain ted; a pair of carved oabinets, a cherry Uoquor writing deak, inlaid tables, cloi«onn<! bronie vases (one magnificent pair standing tit high), aud a beautiful little cloisonnd-top tablo cunningly attcd.wttb drawers. Then there Are some of the oddettneure panels and piotnres, brackets, embroidered designs, screens, toja, a dainty lot of tea sets of the finest ware, almost transparent, and heap* of nick-naoks detir to the heart* of .ladies. The whole collection is to be told on Tuesday next, 27th iustant, absolutely without reserve, the *nle oommencjngvat II a.m. *harp. ' ,3 Pobx sausages, 6d pet lb, made from grain-fed pork ; order early. Wardellßroa. and Co., 51 Willis-street.— Adyt.