A set of twelve China trade "tea cultivation" paintings

Description:

China, 19th c.
15 x 22 cm (27,5 x 34 cm)
Gouache on pith mark. The fine paintings depicting various stages of tea production in a tea farm with buildings: tilling, planting the tea sapling, fertilizing, picking the tea leaves, sorting, sunning, pounding and drying, firing the tea, grading, weaving the boxes and packing, shipping and selling.
From a Southern German private collection, acquired before 2007 - Two paintings each with a tiny tear to the corner, otherwise in very good condition, each with passepartout