Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart functional gifts The larger measures 5 5/8"

The larger measures 5 5/8" in diameter x 7/8" tall

Though I have great love of nearly anything woven and a few years back bought a loom thinking perhaps weaving was my calling (

15ʺ W × 5ʺ D × 6ʺ H and weighs approximately 8 pounds

” this is a linocut print

and so she has a few small scrapes and dings

Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart functional gifts The larger measures 5 5/8"Such a fine, beautiful thing! This is a 19th century Chinese painting executed in gouache on pith paper a type of paper (resembling rice paper) that came into use in China in the 1820s (reaching its heyday in the 1830s and 40s) as a means to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Pith paper was made from the