Objets d'art Japonais et Chinois peintures, estampes : composant la collection des Goncourt
A Paris auction catalogue of 1897 from the Hôtel Drouot, recording Japanese and Chinese art from the Goncourt collection, including paintings and prints, with Charles Lang Freer named as a former owner. The four pictures are sepia photographic plates of ceramics and lacquer, shot on a pale ground and rotated sideways. Their clear tonal modelling of bowls, vases and lacquered boxes shows a designer how Japanese motifs such as pine, grape vine, and birds were arranged on curved surfaces.
