Unknown maker (Japanese) 1860-1880 (ca) Japanese carte-de-visite and cabinet card album
Photograph album, wall-mounted Ninteen-Thirteen: Art Antiques Artifacts A Japanese shibayama inlay, hanging photograph album cabinet of ebonized hardwood, Meiji period (this piece falling in the 1860-1880 range), fitted with stereo card drawer and 24 hinged album pages supporting various sized images behind inlaid and carved doors with shelves at sides and bottom. Door panels and drawer front each feature a bone carved bird on a branch or in flight with flowers and leaves from bone and mother of pearl. The branches are carved from wood.
There are 4 different page styles, two of which accommodate cartes de visite sizes and two that accommodate cabinet card sizes. There are three sets of each style on each side totaling 12 pages per side allowing for a total of 180 images (72 cabinet and 108 cartes de visite).
It measures 38 inches high by 39 ยข inches wide and is 6 + inches deep.
