Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co and also the silhouette created

and also the silhouette created by his tapering arms and flared pants

25" wide x 2" deep

this rug seems to very specifically document the lodge affiliations and degree status of a particular Portland-based Rebekah and/or couple in 1924

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

Still Life with Book and Writing Tools - Exquisite Antique Chinese Pith Painting us embossing co and also the silhouette createdSeveral 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