On loan from the Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts, gift of the Estate of Mr. Harry T. Peters, Jr.
Unidentified Chinese artist Canton, China Gouache on paper early 19th century [E81595]
Paintings that show Western and Chinese merchants engaged in business transactions are unusual. This scene of the interior of a tea warehouse also features Chinese workmen packing tea into crates. It may have once been the final gouache in a series of views showing all of the processes of tea production.
