Collection of Pierre Barboutau arts de'extreme orient
This is a 1904 Paris auction catalogue of Far Eastern art from the collection of Pierre Barboutau, issued by the Hôtel Drouot for collectors and dealers. Its pages are numbered lot listings with handwritten price annotations in pencil and ink, and the printed text is set in plain columns with brace marks grouping lots. A designer could take from it the spare, functional logic of numbered commercial listings, with pencil figures scrawled over printed type.
