Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart Napier cup A charming and useful set

A charming and useful set of tools to add to the sewing kit

The lacquer is in excellent condition

This pair I believe dates to the 1960s

I believe it dates to the late 19th or early 20th century

paperclips--whatever

Antique Chinese Gouache Painting on Pith Paper of Worker with Horse Drawn Cart Napier cup A charming and useful setSuch a fine, beautiful thing! This is a 19th century Chinese painting executed in gouache on pith paper a type of paper (resembling rice paper) that came into use in China in the 1820s (reaching its heyday in the 1830s and 40s) as a means to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Pith paper was made from the