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Drying and Sifting Tea Leaves
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Drying and Sifting Tea Leaves

Unidentified artist, Chinese
about 1790
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor on laid paper
Credit LineGift of Meryl and Dennis Beckingham
Accession number2015.3143.7
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsInscribed on verso in [Chinese] and “No. 15”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.