Perú
A 1907 photographic album of Peruvian pre-Columbian pottery, compiled from the archaeological collection of Christian Gretzer and held by German museums including the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde and the Hannover Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum. The photographs show ceramic vessels, figures and bowls arranged on shelves and tabletops against plain dark backdrops. A designer could draw on their dense grouping of painted and modelled forms, with the repeated animal and human motifs and the strong sepia tonal range.
