A Selection of Chinese carvings : on view at Spink & Son's Galleries ... London
A sales catalogue issued by the London dealers Spink & Son in 1900 to accompany an exhibition of Chinese carvings in their galleries, aimed at collectors and dealers of Asian art. The four pictures show carved hardstone and jade-like objects: a pair of vases with a bird-form stand, a ram-handled urn with a dragon-like beast, a square seal topped with lions, and a round lidded box with dragon bands. A designer could take the dense, flowing relief patterns of scrolls, beasts and key-fret borders as ornament references.
