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A remarkable album of 169 Chinese delicate and finely executed watercolors, evidently put together following an important commission during a period of vigorous trade with Europeans, dating to a time when Chinese goods were in high demand.
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Large folio. 169 original drawings in watercolor with body color; half are on oriental paper pasted onto album sheets, the remainder drawn directly onto the folios. With three blank folios at front and back. Bound in contemporary full green Morocco with gilt-stamped oriental geometric scroll decoration on front, back and spine, lettered with descriptive title on the spine, gilt ornate roll-tooled border on green paper pastedowns, and gilt edges. Provenance: George Folliott, his bookplate on front pastedown.
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