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Tea Merchants (ink, gold, and colour on silk)

Tea Merchants (ink, gold, and colour on silk)
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merchant
refreshment
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men
vendor
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tea
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pouring
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chinese
ewer
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Tea Merchants (ink, gold, and colour on silk)

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Chinese School, (19th century) / Chinese

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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA

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ink, gold, and colour on silk

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This scene of tea vendors sampling their wares is based on an earlier scroll painting with an almost identical composition by the artist Qian Xuan (1235-1301). The men are shown pouring tea from large, spouted ewers into small, stacked cups. In the work by Qian Xuan, the men drank from cups mounted on cup stands, which were commonly used during the Song dynasty (960-1279). The nineteenth-century artist who painted this scroll must have had only a muddled understanding of cup stands, as he has rendered them here as stacks of small cups.

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