As part of our Japanese works of art collection we are delighted to offer this original Meiji Era Carbon image (circa 1900) by the famous photographer Herbert .G. Ponting, the image captures in fine detail a potter studiously sat cross legged upon cloth sacks whilst potting a group of large vessels,the photographer must have been amazed to see at first hand the working conditions of these skilled craftsman , the guy looks incredibly lean, but as fit as a fiddle , reframed in a contemporary frame and signed by Ponting to the front lower left.Biography Herbert George Ponting [1870 - 1935]Born to a wealthy English west country family, in the early 1890s Herbert Ponting emigrated to California where he bought a fruit farm and also became a partner in a gold mining enterprise. Both enterprises soon floundered; he was totally inept as a businessman and he turned to photography, where he found a ready market for his work. In the ten years preceding his appointment as photographer to C...