Tingqua (Tingua, Tinqua) school gouache and watercolor on paper, likely originally from albums made to be sold to 18th & early 19th C. travelers from the West, showing scenes of Chinese life in wonderful detail and still luscious color. Themes include the making and dying of silk, tea production, rice cultivation, and manufacture and decoration of porcelain. Seven paintings, all with some condition issues, including tattered or water stained edges, losses. Several mounted to heavy modern stock. Most appear to be one half of a two page image. A delightful glimpse of Chinese life over two centuries ago, including one of the silk production images, which shows amongst the working adults, two children set down to rest on a large banana leaf, one of them playing a drum. Largest image approx. 19 1/2" x 15 1/2". Provenance: a private Northern Virginia collection.