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Sydney L. Moss Ltd to Bring Japanese Art to New York in March

NEW YORK, NY.- The venerable London dealer in Asian art, Sydney L. Moss Ltd, will stage an exhibition devoted to Japanese art at the Alexandre Gallery on the 13th floor of the Fuller Building in New York, from Wednesday 16 to Monday 28 March 2011 as part of Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) and coinciding with Asia Week. Centenary Exhibition of Japanese art, including the Elly Nordskog Collection of Inrō will be Moss’s sixth annual New York exhibition and will feature lacquer, inrō, pipecases, netsuke and other works from the collection of Elly Nordskog, Californian nonagenarian and grande dame of the heyday of Japanese art collecting in Los Angeles, as well as works from the Edo period. Mrs Nordskog had exceptional taste in Japanese lacquer, especially in marrying inrō with nets