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[China Export Watercolours on Pith Paper].

Ceremonies with fantastic animals.

Stock Code
91713
Canton, 1870
£8,500

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Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith (often erroneously called 'rice paper' or 'mulberry pith') come from the end of the eighteenth century but there do not seem

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Description

A set of 10 watercolour and gouache studies on pith paper; one with a long horizontal closed tear. Contemporary red patterned silk binding; upper hinge broken and upper cover detached.

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