Exhibition of "fakes" and reproductions
A 1916 exhibition catalogue issued by the Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia, documenting forged and reproduced art objects for a museum audience interested in authenticity. Its pictures are grainy black-and-white photographs of stoneware steins, commemorative pitchers, a bowl and plate, and pewter-like tankards, showing relief decoration, portrait medallions, and tapered vessel forms a designer could study for historical ceramic and metalwork patterns.
