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A Woman Preparing Tea

  • Description

    Pasted into this leatherbound volume are the original watercolours for one of the earliest illustrated books on Chinese customs to be published in English. At the back is the author’s manuscript together with details of the publisher’s and printer’s quotes and a newspaper cutting announcing the publication.

    The watercolours were purchased in Canton in 1789. They are of a type produced in workshops for sale chiefly to foreigners, for whom they functioned as records of the exotic. George Henry Mason published them under the title Costumes of China yet they equally record trade and leisure activities.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaGuangdong province Guangzhou (place of creation)
    Date
    1789
    Artist/maker
    Material and technique
    watercolour on paper, with pencil numbering
    Dimensions
    page 32.5 x 25 cm (height x width)
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    Technique index
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    No. of items
    n/a
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 2003.
    Accession no.
    EA2003.4.71
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, ‘Costumes of China’, Orientations, 34/November, (2003), passim, illus. p. 54

Location

    • currently in research collection

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