Unloading at Silk Merchant's Shop
Painting
1870-1890 (made)
1870-1890 (made)
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This painting is from an album depicting the silk industry. It shows silk products arriving in towns and cities and being unloaded at a silk merchant's shop.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, 'Unloading Silk at the Merchant's Shop', fourteen of sixteen by Wu Jun, watercolours on paper, Guangzhou, 1870-1890 |
| Physical description | IRectangular painting in cool tones depicting a central scene. It is bordered with blue ribbon. It shows silk products arriving in towns and cities and being unloaded at a silk merchant's shop. |
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| Object history | One of sixteen paintings from a series numbered D.911 to 926-1901. Each sheet in the album depicting a different stage of the cultivation and manafacture of silk. Purchased from Carl Langweil, accessioned in 1901. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
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| Summary | This painting is from an album depicting the silk industry. It shows silk products arriving in towns and cities and being unloaded at a silk merchant's shop. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Souvenir from Canton : Chinese export paintings from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Shanghai, 2003
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| Accession number | D.924-1901 |
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| Record created | September 18, 2002 |
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