Daguerreotype-Japanese Women Tea Drinking

Sixth plate daguerreotype, showing Japanese women drinking tea from 1870-80s. Mounted in decorative case with clasp.

Illustrated on page 165 of the History of Photography book by Camfield and Deirdre Wills c1980, which states:

Above right The daguerreotype
of the Japanese tea ladies which
featured in the case Regina v
George Bernard Shaw at
Manchester Crown Court, June
1979.

Condition Report:
Possibly a period copy of a photograph. We have taken the frame out of the case. Old sealing paper has been removed at some point leaving gum and traces of paper to the rear of the frame and back of the daguerreotype. The gilt mask has left an oxidised impression around the image which extends behind the mask.