iGavel Auctions: Five Chinese Export Gouache on Pith Paper Paintings, circa 1880 ASW1

Estimate
$600-900

Description
each painting dealing with silk production, from feeding of the silk worms, boiling of the cocoons, to weaving of the silk; each with gilt and cream frame with label of framers on verso, Trowbridge

Provenance

Measurements
illustrations, each: approximately 6 3/4 by 11 1/2 inches
overall: 16 1/2 by 20 7/8 inches

Weight

Condition
matte appears to be plastered, cracked; some paper with minor foxing; not examined out of frame, frame not guaranteed for condition