[China] Series of twelve Chinese export gouaches on dried peepal (bodhi tree) leaves
The lvs all measuring approx. 17 x 12 cm, China, late 19th/early 20th cent. Mounted in modern antique- style green hmor. album, 4to size (29 x 24 cm). Exquisite examples of this refined type of Chinese art, usually found on pith paper lvs, here in a much rarer variant on dried bodhi tree leaves, of which Persian examples are also known.