Descriptive catalogue of an important collection of Japanese and Chinese pottery, porcelain, bronzes, brocades, prints, embroideries, kakemono, screens, ivories and gold lacquers selected by Mr. Bunkio Matsuki of Kobe, Japan, and Boston
A Boston auction house's 1898 descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese ceramics, bronzes, textiles and prints, assembled by the Kobe dealer Bunkio Matsuki and later owned by collector Charles Lang Freer. The pictures are plain black-and-white halftone photographs of single objects, each lit against a dark ground and captioned with a catalogue number. A designer could take from them the soft, glazed silhouettes of Asian porcelain vessels and their sparse, delicate floral decoration.
