Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart functional gifts or just for display

or just for display

with handle 1 3/4" across at widest diameter

Though I have great love of nearly anything woven and a few years back bought a loom thinking perhaps weaving was my calling (

15ʺ W × 5ʺ D × 6ʺ H and weighs approximately 8 pounds

this piece is very much in the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros--legendary for their elaborate "tree of life" candlesticks and candleabra

Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart functional gifts or just for displaySuch a fine, beautiful thing! This is a 19th century Chinese painting executed in gouache on pith paper a type of paper (resembling rice paper) that came into use in China in the 1820s (reaching its heyday in the 1830s and 40s) as a means to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Pith paper was made from the