£1,200 - £1,500
TWELVE CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS, LATE QING - Depicting the stages of silk production in the Qing Dynasty: Picking mulberry leaves; bathing the eggs; third moulting; picking mature silkworms; warming the trays; heating cocoons and reeling the threads; reeling the threads; cleaning the threads; warping, dyeing; drying; weaving designs; watercolour and bodycolour on rice paper, margin size: 15 x 28 cm, frame size: 48.5 x 35.5 cm each, double mounted, glazed and framed as a set (12)
Minor discolouration and indentations to paper. One with small puncture to paper lower right. One with small hole and sign of restoration. One with vertical cracks to paper and tear in lower right corner.
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