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Album with Chinese miniatures

Estimate €500–700

Description

Comprising seventy-eight gouaches with collages on rice paper.

Depicting scenes of everyday Chinese life.

Album, 19th/20th century, marked "Kodak"

(some damp stains, minor losses and defects)

(miniature) 8.5x5.5 cm; (album) 21x26

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