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Antique Chinese Export Painting Tea Trade Canton Insects Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

Antique Chinese Export Painting Tea Trade Canton Insects Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

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A ready-made vintage Chinese export art junk journal kit of 20 printable pieces painted in Canton (Guangzhou) for European and American buyers between about 1770 and 1850: four gouache scenes of the tea trade (weighing, sampling, sorting and cutting the tea in a merchant's hong), the Pearl River with Canton, Macao and Whampoa crowded with junks and East India ships, and a sweeping panorama of Canton and the foreign factories. With them come delicate watercolours on rice paper of a standing lady, a hunter with his bow, a seated official and a seated lady in embroidered robes, six sheets of brilliantly coloured butterflies, moths, dragonflies and beetles, a cotton beater at work, and a panel of hand-painted export wallpaper with flowering branches and rocks.

Print sizes at 300 dpi (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):
• Watercolours on rice paper: figures, insects, crafts (11): about 9 × 10 in up to 11 × 15 in, big enough for A5 to A4 / letter prints, tags and framing
• Canton export paintings of the tea trade and Pearl River (8): about 13 × 19 in up to 16 × 62 in, big enough for A4 / letter prints and framing
• Hand-painted export wallpaper panel (1): about 16 × 24 in, big enough for A4 / letter prints and framing
Everything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.

Pieces included: Weighing the tea chests at a Canton hong; Standing lady; Butterflies and other insects; Standing hunter with bow; Three Views of the Pearl River III; Seated official; Seated lady; Chinese insect painting I; Chinese insect painting II; Chinese insect painting III; Chinese insect painting IV; Chinese insect painting V; Beating cotton; Sampling the tea; Sorting the tea; Cutting and sorting the tea; Three Views of the Pearl River I; Three Views of the Pearl River II; View of the Pearl River with the city of Canton; Hand-painted Chinese export wallpaper.

Files: 20 high-resolution JPGs in one zip download (159 MB). Pixel sizes: rice-paper watercolours about 3,000–4,660 px on the long edge; export paintings about 5,800–18,800 px on the long edge; wallpaper panel about 7,200–7,200 px on the long edge. These are the full-size museum and library scans. Nothing is cropped or resized: each piece is the museum's full original scan, so the rice-paper sheets keep their soft edges and mounts.

Source and rights: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0), and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, public domain (CC0). Chinese export watercolours, gouaches and wallpaper by unknown Canton artists, about 1770–1850.

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