'Japanese Antiquities (in the British Museum)'
Reference code
GOW/04/07
Title
'Japanese Antiquities (in the British Museum)'
Date
1889 and later
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
1. Detailed notes in tabular format by Gowland, headed 'List of Ancient Japanese and Korean Pottery': pages 97-128 from a notebook with pre-printed pagination, of which the notes occupy pp 100-180.
This item was discussed, edited and printed in full as an appendix to Katushito Takemura, Research on the Gowland Notebook held at the Society of Antiquaries of London in Relation to the Gowland Collection at the British Museum (PhD thesis Kyoto Tachibana University (2014) - a copy of the thesis is held in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries.
2. List of items, with valuations, in Gowland's hand: headed 'Copy. Original given to Mr Franks 15th April 1889', and ending with note that Franks had agreed to pay £280 in two instalments.
This list records the sale to Augustus Wollaston Franks of the collection of Japanese pottery, bronze artefacts, stone weapons and an ancient bell, all brought back to England by Gowland on retirement from his post in Japan.
3. Draft list by Gowland, 58 numbered entries, with a few further unnumbered. It appears to have been drafted after the sale to Franks: the annotations include references to figures in Gowland's article 'The dolmens and burial mounds in Japan', Archaeologia 55 (1897), pp 439-524; and the corresponding figures in the article are noted as in the British Museum.
The bulk of Gowland's notes and working papers on Japanese objects are now held in the British Museum, together with the artefacts sold to Franks in 1889: see Victor Harris and Kazuo Goto, William Gowland: the Father of Japenese Archaeology (2003), and Luke Edgington-Brown, The International Origins of Japanese Archaeology: William Gowland and his Kofun Collection at the British Museum (PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016).
This item was discussed, edited and printed in full as an appendix to Katushito Takemura, Research on the Gowland Notebook held at the Society of Antiquaries of London in Relation to the Gowland Collection at the British Museum (PhD thesis Kyoto Tachibana University (2014) - a copy of the thesis is held in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries.
2. List of items, with valuations, in Gowland's hand: headed 'Copy. Original given to Mr Franks 15th April 1889', and ending with note that Franks had agreed to pay £280 in two instalments.
This list records the sale to Augustus Wollaston Franks of the collection of Japanese pottery, bronze artefacts, stone weapons and an ancient bell, all brought back to England by Gowland on retirement from his post in Japan.
3. Draft list by Gowland, 58 numbered entries, with a few further unnumbered. It appears to have been drafted after the sale to Franks: the annotations include references to figures in Gowland's article 'The dolmens and burial mounds in Japan', Archaeologia 55 (1897), pp 439-524; and the corresponding figures in the article are noted as in the British Museum.
The bulk of Gowland's notes and working papers on Japanese objects are now held in the British Museum, together with the artefacts sold to Franks in 1889: see Victor Harris and Kazuo Goto, William Gowland: the Father of Japenese Archaeology (2003), and Luke Edgington-Brown, The International Origins of Japanese Archaeology: William Gowland and his Kofun Collection at the British Museum (PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016).