A pair of Chinese pith paintings of river craft, Canton, mid-19th century. Each shows a river craft: one appears to be a flat decked 'duck boat', with a woven bamboo or matting roof. Below the hull a large flock of small white ducks floats on the water. The other is a passenger houseboat, sometimes called a 'flower boat'. It has a green lattice-work cabin, a raised purple roof structure and an ornate carved and painted stern with a long pennant flying. A smaller orange sampan is on the left. Good condition. Both are frmed and glazed within a modern gilt-wood frame. sightly scuffed in parts (see images). Sizes shown are for the frame size. The images themselves are 21.5x13.5cm. Please note that shipping costs are not solely the cost of the postal delivery service itself. Included within the shipping price is the work undertaken to research the article, to mount it, for photography, for uploading to Catawiki, for preparation and packaging the article securely and for transporting the article to the postal delivery agent for processing. 

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