Chinese glass-fronted box with 12 hand-painted Scenes of Chinese Crime, Punishement & Torture.

Door: [CHINA]

❮ ❯

• ISBN:
• Uitgever: Collection of 12 original hand-painted Chinese drawings on pith. Oblong. 13x9 cm. In orig. glass-fronted box. ca. 1890-1910. Late Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. Two paintings with small tears & 1 painti...
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie:
• Details: Conditie: goed. RECHT
• Extra informatie: Pith 'paper' comes from the central column of spongy cellular tissue in the stem of a small tree called Tetrapanax Papyrifera, native to south-west China, and is often confused with rice paper. There was a flourishing trade in pith paintings by the early 1830s. Developed to appeal to the 'foreign barbarian' visitors to China, paintings on pith were produced by artisans rather than by the intellectual elite and they were therefore not accepted as Chinese art. Painters on pith did not in general sign their work. The albums of pith paintings (and later the little glass-fronted boxes) were inexpensive, light, easy to pack and gave the pictures some protection on the long voyage home. Pith paintings in little glass-topped boxes were available in Hong Kong late in the nineteenth century and probably well into the twentieth. Because pith paintings were sold in albums and boxes and hence protected from the light, they retain their bright colours to this day.
• € 750.00