Silk-embroidered flowers and plants collected by Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer
Scope & Content:
Silk embroideries of flowers and plants of Chinese manufacture, each cut out and pasted down on a rectangular sheet of paper measuring ca. 255 x 195 mm.
These are the original covers of Add MS 5252. It is a British Museum binding of red goatskin tooled in gold, measuring 530 x 390 mm. Written in golden characters on the spine are the words 'Japanese Chinese Drawings / MSS Kaempfer / Mus. Brit. / Sloane / 5252 / XL.B'. Some of the folios on which ...