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Scene Showing Stages of Tea Production

Unidentified artist, Chinese

about 1790

Medium/TechniqueWomen plucking sparrow’s tongue tea leaves from branches

DimensionsFramed: 29 x 63 cm (11 7/16 x 24 13/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Meryl and Dennis Beckingham

Accession number2015.3143.3

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ClassificationsWatercolors

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InscriptionsInscribed on verso in [Chinese] and “No. 8”Provenance2002, consigned by a private collector, Sweden, to Johan Nordern and Louise Leyhsen, Stockholm [see note]; December, 2002, sold by Johan Nordern and Louise Leyhsen to Jeremy, Ltd., London (dealer); May 17, 2004, sold by Jeremy, Ltd. to Meryl and Dennis Beckingham, Boston; 2015, gift of the Beckinghams to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2015)

NOTE: It is believed that this group of paintings (MFA accession nos. 2015.3143.1 – .11; 2015.3144.1 – .2) had been in this Swedish private collection for many years, possibly in Sweden since around the time they were created.