Packing Tea Into Pewter Tins With Straw Wrapping
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Packing Tea Into Pewter Tins With Straw Wrapping is a 1800 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see people packing tea into pewter tins and wrapping them in straw. This painting is part of a set showing the tea industry in China. It was made for Europeans who wanted to know how tea was grown and processed. The detail of straw wrapping is interesting because it shows how tea was protected during transport. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to learn more about this painting and its history.
A rectangular watercolour from around 1800 depicts seven figures in a line packing tea into tall pewter tins, which are then wrapped in straw. The scene is part of a twelve-painting set illustrating the tea industry in China, a nation that supplied the world’s tea before the mid-18th century. Paintings of this kind were created to inform European audiences about tea production methods in China. The work was donated by Mrs. L. MacKenzie and entered the collection in 1894.
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