Catalogue of Mr. Samuel Colman's collection of brocade and silk hangings, swords, inros, carvings, metal work and porcelains
A New York auction catalogue from 1893, issued by the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries for the sale of Samuel Colman's collection of Asian decorative arts, including brocades, swords, inros and porcelains. The single plate shows a dark lacquered object with a cylindrical top and a rounded body, set on a cream page. A designer could take from it the dense gold-on-black surface pattern and the framing of a single object as a plate.
