A twelve-leaf album of Chinese export paintings of Birds
by [Chinese Pith Paintings]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Canton: SunQua Studio, 1870. Silk covered boards. 12 intricate bird paintings on pith with foreground, flowers and trees detailed around them. Images include partridges, Mandarin ducks, water fowl, pheasants, etc. Leaves mounted with dark pale turquoise silk ribbon to paper leaves. Oblong 8vo, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4" with original ties. Western binding opening from the right. Bound in a green, gold, blue and red silk woven in a daisy & vine pattern, which sometimes appears with a Sunqua stamp. Sunqua was active 1830-1870. With a very early Sothebys Parke Bernet auction sticker on the cover.
Paintings with minor cracks and overall very bright and stable.
Paintings with minor cracks and overall very bright and stable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27225
- Title
- A twelve-leaf album of Chinese export paintings of Birds
- Author
- [Chinese Pith Paintings]
- Format/Binding
- Silk covered boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- SunQua Studio
- Place of Publication
- Canton
- Date Published
- 1870
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHINA; BIRDS;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
Biblio member since 2009
Garrison, New York
About Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...