Antique Chinese Gouache Painting of Two Figures with Cart on Pith Paper, Signed finely crafted Based on others that I

Based on others that I have seen

Great on a rustic farm table as well as amid other mid-century decor

extra big rear foot

and have calculated shipping weight without the bits

and he looks like quite a wise man

Antique Chinese Gouache Painting of Two Figures with Cart on Pith Paper, Signed finely crafted Based on others that ISuch 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