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Oriental collection of W. T. Walters : 65 Mt. Vernon place, Baltimore

Walters, W. T, (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · 1884 · [Baltimore, Md. : Press of I. Friedenwald] · 5 pictures

A catalogue of W. T. Walters's private collection of Asian art objects, published in Baltimore in 1884 by the Press of I. Friedenwald for collectors and connoisseurs. Its plates show numbered line drawings of Chinese symbolic ornaments and a pen-and-wash figure scene, giving a designer clear, schematic motifs such as knots, cloud borders, and trigram rings to adapt for patterns or emblems.

Art objects · Private collections · Art objects, Asian · Pottery · Art objects -- Private collections · Pottery -- Private collections

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