Oriental silverwork, Malay and Chinese, with over 250 original illustrations; a handbook for connoisseurs, collectors, students and silversmiths
H. Ling Roth's 1910 London handbook documents Malay and Chinese silverwork for collectors, students and working silversmiths, cataloguing over 250 objects with measured detail. Halftone photographs and line drawings show repoussé bowls, belt clasps, betel boxes and lids covered in radial florets, scrolling foliage and beaded borders, supplying rosette medallions, running vine bands and symmetrical clasp silhouettes.
