Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart Napier cup This is a beautiful and

This is a beautiful and super useful old horsehair work brush made by the Phoenix Brush Company

or on top of a table

This pair I believe dates to the 1960s

8" tall x 6 1/2" wide (with dress spread flat)

Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart Napier cup This is a beautiful andSuch a fine, beautiful thing! This is a 19th century Chinese painting executed in gouache on pith paper a type of paper (resembling rice paper) that came into use in China in the 1820s (reaching its heyday in the 1830s and 40s) as a means to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Pith paper was made from the