Illustrated catalogue of the beautiful old Chinese porcelains comprising the extraordinary private collection : formed by Mr. S.S. Carvalho
This is a 1914 auction catalogue published in New York by the American Art Association, listing the private collection of S. S. Carvalho, with Charles Lang Freer noted as a former owner, aimed at dealers and collectors of Chinese porcelain. The four pictures show individual porcelain pieces photographed against a plain cream ground: a bottle vase with a long neck and scrolling cobalt-blue decoration, a covered jar with figures in a landscape, a covered ewer with a dragon-shaped spout, and a close view of a vase neck with applied handles. A designer might take the flat, evenly lit product photography and the dense, repeating scroll and cloud motifs as reference for pattern and ceramic form.
