Chinese Watercolours of Flowers and Butterflies on Pith Paper, Set of Eight, Circa 1840-60.

Chinese Watercolours of Flowers and Butterflies on Pith Paper,

Set of Eight,

Circa 1840-60.

The superb set of Chinese watercolours of flowers and insects are painted on pith paper and conserved onto acid-free paper and board within original blue silk ribbon.

These came originally with their original fabric album which had the bookplate of Edward Uvedale Augustus Price on the inside front cover with forty-two quarterings- now no longer available.

Dimensions: 13 1/4 inches x 16 3/4 inches; sight (from edge of silk ribbon 7 inches x 10 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Collection of Edward Uvedale Augustus Price, 1892. Motto: Vive Ut Vivas (Live that you may have life).

Edward Uvedale Augustus Price.

Major late 4th Battalion East Surrey Regiment.

Bom October 18, 1854, being the second son of the late George Uvedale Price, General Bombay Staff Corps, by his wife Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of James Price, Lieut. 24th Foot, Hussars. Bom Nov. 6. 1870, being the only son of the late Lewis de Tessier Prevost. Esq., Colonel in the and great-grandson of the late Sir Charles Price, Bart. , of
Spring Grove, Richmond, in the co. of Surrey.

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(Ref: NY10466-nnuu)

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