La peinture chinoise et l'art bouddhique tibétain au Musée Guimet
A 1912 Paris catalogue by Joseph Hackin, published by Imprimerie Lehure, describing Chinese painting and Tibetan Buddhist art at the Musée Guimet for a scholarly French readership. The pages show a carved white jade-like finial on a stand, a woven rug with dark ground and a horse and birds motif, and a glazed ceramic vase with painted figures and a scrolled band around its shoulder, set in dense justified text with figure captions. A designer might take the framed photographic plates, the rich dark-and-cream tonal contrast, and the decorative border and scroll patterns.
