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Firing the tea, by Youqua

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An image of Album: Tea-making. Firing the tea. 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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Album: Tea-making. Firing the tea. 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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  • Accession Number: 4167(11)
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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  • Image width: 1024 pixels
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  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 50
  • Captured: 2011:06:16 09:53:10

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19th Century album architectural architecture building Chinese cultivating cultivation export Fitz_PDP industry manufacture paper pith paper plantation silk taking tea tasting tea tea making tea plantation tea tasters tea-making trade trading workers working Youqua

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