Chinese School. Album of pen and black ink drawings of Chinese trades and professions, circa 1830-50, a collection of 49 pen and black ink drawings on rice paper, depicting various trades, occupations and pastimes, each with caption in Chinese characters to upper right corner, some chips and losses (mostly affecting sheet edges), some yellowing and occasional spots or stains (mainly towards front and rear of album), each sheet originally tipped at corners (some also at centres of sides) to an album leaf, some with one (or more) edging strips of blue silk, most sheets partially or fully split away from support (due to expansion of album leaves), the splits mainly affecting blank areas and captions, the first drawing (man selling hand fans) detached with losses to both sides of image, final image with long vertical split centrally, the sheets 31 x 19 cm and similar, stitching strained, original decorative cloth covered boards, extremely worn, front cover detached, 4to (Quantity: 1) Probably produced as a souvenir album for export, the trades and occupations depicted include a scribe, selling firecrackers, chopping firewood, selling shoes, a lady embroidering, chiselling lock parts, playing three games, selling horseshoes, carrying tea, selling mooncakes, carrying mountain water, cooking fermented wine, selling dove and duck eggs, beating tin shapes, sweeping word boards, etc.
Chinese School. Album of pen and black ink drawings of Chinese trades and professions, circa 1830-50, a collection of 49 pen and black ink drawings on rice paper, depicting various trades, occupations and pastimes, each with caption in Chinese characters to upper right corner, some chips and losses (mostly affecting sheet edges), some yellowing and occasional spots or stains (mainly towards front and rear of album), each sheet originally tipped at corners (some also at centres of sides) to an album leaf, some with one (or more) edging strips of blue silk, most sheets partially or fully split away from support (due to expansion of album leaves), the splits mainly affecting blank areas and captions, the first drawing (man selling hand fans) detached with losses to both sides of image, final image with long vertical split centrally, the sheets 31 x 19 cm and similar, stitching strained, original decorative cloth covered boards, extremely worn, front cover detached, 4to (Quantity: 1) Probably produced as a souvenir album for export, the trades and occupations depicted include a scribe, selling firecrackers, chopping firewood, selling shoes, a lady embroidering, chiselling lock parts, playing three games, selling horseshoes, carrying tea, selling mooncakes, carrying mountain water, cooking fermented wine, selling dove and duck eggs, beating tin shapes, sweeping word boards, etc.
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