Drying the tea leaves, by Youqua

An image of Album: Tea-making. Drying the tea leaves. Youqua (Chinese, ac.1840-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours (foilios 1-12) on pith paper with two blank foilios (front and back, unnumbered). Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Album: Tea-making. Drying the tea leaves. Youqua (Chinese, ac.1840-1870). Album containing 12 watercolours (foilios 1-12) on pith paper with two blank foilios (front and back, unnumbered). Watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper, height 250 mm, width 337 mm, 19th century. Chinese. Production Note: Export album made for the Western market.

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Accession Number: 4167(10)
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:06:16 09:52:47

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