Pith Paintings.

Collection of Albums. 5 albums, one stamped on front endpaper with the name Tingqua (Guan Lianchang), this album with 4 loose images of Chinese court figures/portraits, (one with slight damage), together 45 pith paintings depicting images of hunting, multiple natural history images, butterflies, fish and birds, Junk, ladies at leisure and doing 'gentle' pastimes, of these 14 have some sort of minor damage that mostly affect edges, contemporary patterned Chinese cloth, worn at edges, [n.p., China, mid-late c.19th].