Watering tea plants, about 1850
Opaque watercolor on paper
Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
On view March 14, 2009 to September 15, 2013
Located in the: Asian Export Art: Works on Paper Gallery
Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China -- fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe.
Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Images
Watering tea plants, about 1850
Opaque watercolor on paper
Loading tea in Canton (Guangzhou), about 1852
Canton (Guangzhou)
Opaque watercolor on paper
Goldfish, about 1790
Portrait of a woman in the Chinese Imperial Court, about 1730
Opaque watercolor on paper
Peabody Essex Museum
Silk Cultivation, late 1770s
Opaque watercolor on paper
Peabody Essex Museum
