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Album: Tea-making. A tea hong at Canton. Packing the crates for shipping to the West on the left; weighing scales; Westerners negotiating the purchase of tea in the foreground; marking and sealing the crates on the right. The junk in the background would transport the tea to a western vessel at Whampoa Anchorage. Youqua (Chinese, ac.1840-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours (foilios 1-12) on pith paper with two blank foilios (front and back, unnumbered). Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.
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