Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co and also the silhouette created

and also the silhouette created by his tapering arms and flared pants

3 3/4" x 3 15/16" x 1 1/2"

and our author really loved her onomatopoeia--the poems are filled with snaps

has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint

Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co and also the silhouette createdSeveral years ago I happened upon a couple of wonderful antique Chinese pith paintings, which made me learn about them, and look for them, but I haven't fallen in love with one (that I could at all afford) since until this one. Pith refers to the paper (which resembles but is different than rice paper),made from the cellular tissue found in the stem of a small tree called Tetrapanax Papyrifera, native to south west China. It came into use in China in