Large Album of Gouache Paintings

Description:

Large Album of Gouache Paintings, China, 19th century, ink and colors, consisted of approximately 280 illustrations on rice paper, depicting various trades, customs, punishment scenes, and transportation methods in late Qing China, most accompanied with vivid descriptions on the right side, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

Provenance: Ex Bonhams from collection of James Russel Brazier, Chief Secretary of the Imperial Maritime Customs, China, from 1899. His daughter Helen Hope Brazier (1899-1999) (who had the book S. Hoe, Women At the Siege, Peking 1900, Oxford, 2000, dedicated to her memory as 'the last survivor of the Western women in Peking' at the time of the Boxer Rebellion). Thence by descent in a private Scottish collection.




Estimate $3,000-5,000

Water stain and creases to some pages; the colors are well preserved

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