{"product_id":"antique-chinese-export-painting-tea-trade-canton-insects-junk-journal-ephemera-pack-20-printable-pieces","title":"Antique Chinese Export Painting Tea Trade Canton Insects Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ready-made \u003cstrong\u003evintage Chinese export art junk journal kit\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003e20 printable pieces\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint sizes at 300 dpi\u003c\/strong\u003e (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):\u003cbr\u003e\n• 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\u003cbr\u003e\n• 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\u003cbr\u003e\n• Hand-painted export wallpaper panel (1): about 16 × 24 in, big enough for A4 \/ letter prints and framing\u003cbr\u003e\nEverything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePieces included:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFiles:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSource and rights:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital file only. No physical item will be shipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maker Pixel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55845829968215,"sku":"VIPGMZXE","price":3.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9057\/2119\/files\/VIPGMZXE_01_cover.jpg?v=1794504781","url":"https:\/\/makerpixel.com\/products\/antique-chinese-export-painting-tea-trade-canton-insects-junk-journal-ephemera-pack-20-printable-pieces","provider":"Maker Pixel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}