Illustrated catalogue of antique oriental porcelains : Collected by an amateur of New York
This is a 1914 New York auction catalogue, issued by the American Art Association, that illustrates the Asian porcelain collection of Charles Lang Freer, an amateur collector. The four pictures show photographed vases on carved wooden stands, plain-glazed, flower-painted, calligraphy-decorated, and crackle-glazed, with plain grey backgrounds and numbered plates. A designer might take their silhouettes, the pear-shaped and moon-flask forms, and the spare photographic lighting.
