Hand-book of a collection of Chinese porcelains loaned by James A. Garland
A 1895 hand-book published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, compiled by John Getz, cataloguing Chinese porcelains lent by collector James A. Garland for museum visitors. The pictures are plain black-and-white photographs of vases and ewers shown against a pale ground, with case numbers printed in the margins; a designer might take from them the dense, repeating patterns of blossoms, scrolls and figures in dark grounds with reserved white motifs.
