Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co Photos show all blocks included

Photos show all blocks included as well as condition of box

Stone books were a form of American folk art particularly popular in the period from just after the Civil War to about 1900

it is hard to get proper lighting on the face(s) and body at the same time

such that one side of the lid is not quite flush to the top lip

Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co Photos show all blocks includedSeveral years ago I happened upon a couple of wonderful antique Chinese pith paintings, which made me learn about them, and look for them, but I haven't fallen in love with one (that I could at all afford) since until this one. Pith refers to the paper (which resembles but is different than rice paper),made from the cellular tissue found in the stem of a small tree called Tetrapanax Papyrifera, native to south west China. It came into use in China in