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Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Oriental Art ObjectsN bringing together the collection of Oriental I art objects herein catalogued, I have followed the elevating and admirable example set by Baltimore's great connoisseur, Mr. William Thompson Walters, whose magnificent collection has strongly in¿uenced and inspired me. At the outset of my efforts, I was fortunate in securing many specimens from the Brinkley collection, then being dis...
Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by European and American Artists, - and of Chinese, Cochin-Chinese, Korean and Japanese Keramics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888.
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Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Oriental Art Objects
N bringing together the collection of Oriental 1 art objects herein catalogued, I have followed the elevating and admirable example set by Baltimore's great connoisseur, Mr. William Thompson Walters, whose magnificent collection has strongly in¿uenced and inspired me. At the outset of my efforts, I was fortunate in securing many specimens from the Brinkley collection, then being d...