The Chefs-d'oœvre
A 1900 Philadelphia survey of art and architecture published by G. Barrie, drawing on the Paris exhibitions and compiled by William Walton for a general audience of collectors and art readers. Its plates are photographic reproductions of decorative objects: a painted fan with mythological figures, a carved ornamental sword, a relief chimney-piece, and hand-painted porcelain figurines, offering a designer historic ornament motifs in fan, metalwork, sculpture and ceramic form.
