Objets d'art et paintures de la Chine et du Japon : reunis par T. Hayashi, ancien commisaire general du Japon a exposition universelle de 1900
A 1903 Paris auction catalogue published by the Hôtel Drouot, listing Chinese and Japanese art assembled by Tadamasa Hayashi, former Japanese commissioner at the 1900 Universal Exposition, and once owned by Charles Lang Freer. Its photographic plates show sculptures in sepia tone: a row of small figurines, a standing bodhisattva on a lotus base, and a seated robed monk with a bare chest, lit softly against plain paper, offering designers clear views of carved drapery folds and calm, weathered surfaces.
