Catalogue of the Avery collection of ancient Chinese cloisonnés
A 1912 museum catalogue published by the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, documenting the Avery collection of ancient Chinese cloisonné objects for collectors and scholars of decorative arts. Its plates show vases, incense boxes, a covered shrine urn and a bronze-style Buddhist shrine, photographed in black and white with brief catalogue captions beneath. A designer might take from them the layered geometric and floral enamel patterns, dense scrollwork on lobed vessel forms, and the dark metal textures of Qing-period objects.
