The first edition of Du Halde's "encyclopaedic account of China" (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde,...

Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...

Garden Chinoiserie comes West. Le Rouge's expansive and virtually unobtainable publication on gardens in the Anglo-Chinese manner.The most impressi...

Zhou Peichun was a famous Beijing folk artist and export painter in the late Qing Dynasty.The present album t contains 96 pictures showing Chinese...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and insects.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small...

Tea cultivation. An excellent example of rare Chinese album on pith paper on tea cultivation depicting each process in detail. Pith seems not to ha...

Number one of 250 copies. A lavish production on the important later ceramic works from the Ch'ing Dynasty, this deluxe issue further enhanced by t...

Four Chinese Export paintings, each finely painted in ink and gouache on paper with bird and flower scenes enclosed with floral cartouches, on a d...

Fine collection of original drawings showing Chinese ceremonies, scenes from the Imperial court, portraits of Chinese nobility, musical instrument...

+Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith (often erroneously ca...

This beautiful album contains prints by various Meiji artists including two by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 12 by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-19...

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful creator of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Japan in the 19th c...

Chinese folk religion. A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion, incorporating ele...