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Red Silk Cotton (Bombax ceiba)

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  • Album. Unnamed Specimen. Unknown maker, Chinese. Watercolour and some bodycolour with white on thin paper, backed with second sheet, and both tipped in on the album sheet, height 312 mm, width 384 mm. Album containing 47 drawings on thin paper backed with a second sheet and both tipped in on the pages of an album quarter bound in red morocco, gilt tooled and parchment boards. The pages of the album are of hand-made cream coloured paper.
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