Man Selling Pottery Stoves
1790
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1790
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Man Selling Pottery Stoves is a 1790 paint by Puqua, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a man standing behind a table piled with round pottery stoves. He holds a small stove in one hand and a brush in the other, like he’s about to demonstrate how it works. Made around 1790, it’s one of 100 paintings showing different trades in Canton. Europeans bought these to learn what daily life in China looked like. It hangs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The rectangular watercolor depicts a man seated in blue, surrounded by two wire baskets filled with small orange pottery stoves, one of a set of 100 paintings illustrating trades and occupations in Canton. Created for European audiences curious about Chinese society, the work was acquired from Parsons & Sons and entered the collection in 1898.
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