Objects d'art et peintures du Japon et de la Chine : provenant de la collection Suminokura de kioto
This 1907 catalogue from the Paris galleries of Durand-Ruel presents Japanese and Chinese decorative objects and paintings from the Suminokura collection of Kyoto, formerly owned by Charles Lang Freer, for prospective buyers and collectors. The photographs show dark bronze and metal objects against plain pale grounds: a crouching animal figure, a slender-necked vase with a Greek key band, a rocky sculpted piece with a small seated figure, and a standing bronze figure with beaded hands. A designer could take their sculptural silhouettes and the warm, tonal patina of cast metal.
