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The Tea Industry in China [12].
This painting, which depicts pickers unloading their baskets is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [11].
This painting, which depicts two men standing in chests of tea is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [10].
This painting which shows one of the machines used in the tea-industry is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [09].
This painting which shows workers securing the lids on boxes of tea being sampled inside by two men is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [07].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [06].
This painting which shows workers drying the tea leaves is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [05].
This painting which shows workers carrying tea in boxes to be sampled by two men is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [04].
After the tea has been dried so that it is brittle and black, it is ready for the final process of sifting. The tea is screened through a sieve before it is put into storage boxes. This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the…
The Tea industry in China [03].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [02].
Among these tea-shrubs are women and children picking tea. Only the top two or three tender leaves are picked, and these must be nipped off cleanly, without bruising or breaking the stem or stalk.
Life in the Chinese royal household [02].
A rare 1880s illustration on pith-paper of a scene in the Chinese Royal household.
Raree-Show at Lin-Sin-Chow.
"The spectators and auditors at the raree-show in Lin-sin-choo belong to the industrious and humbler classes" (Allom, c.1842, v. I, p. 48).
Cormorants Fishing
"The Chinese fishermen take out with them in the morning ten or twelve of these birds, still fasting, either in light boats, or on bamboo rafts. They make them dive one or two at a time: the cormorant seldom comes up without having taken a fish, and…
The Tea Industry in China [01].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Silk Cord Makers.
"The figures represented ... are engaged in manufacturing silk-twist by a very different mode to that adopted by Europeans. Their machinery is not horizontal, but vertical. The threads are extended round a truncated cone. The females who twist…
Life in the Chinese Royal Household [01].
A rare 1880s illustration on pith-paper of a scene in the Chinese Royal household.