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Li Xubai

Li Xubai (Chinese, b. 1940).The dark color is gradually changing to the top, and the forest flowers are few and far away.&nbsp;The gentleman loves the beauty of my house, lying down and listening to the mountain spring flying a hundred feet away.On the evening of Wuyin, I wrote down a picture of the mountain spring in the old home of Xiangjiang in the Tingyun Mountain Pavilion in Ottawa.&nbsp;The theme of the virtual white room in Fujian.Offered in a plain wood frame. 李虛白 1940年生 臥聽山泉 設色紙本 鏡框&nbsp;款識：暝色蒼茫漸上衣，林花寥落燕來稀。先生自愛吾廬美，臥聽山泉百丈飛。戊寅歲晚，記寫香江故家山泉圖於渥京聽雲山館。閩中虛白室主題&nbsp;鈐印：虛白室主人（朱）、閩中李齋（白）、 聽雲山館（白）

Waterfall in the Mountains

Chinese export watercolors.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Watercolor and gouache studies on pith paper, framed in giltwood and blue silk ribbon.</li><li>Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the 19th century.</li><li>Paintings in oils, on board and canvas were costly and difficult to carry home.</li><li>Earlier and more prestigious export watercolors had often been on a larger scale and painted on fine Chinese paper or on paper imported from Europe.</li><li>The albums of pith paintings (and later, the little glass fronted boxes) were inexpensive, light, easy to pack and gave the pictures some protection on the long voyage home.</li><li>Pith comes from the central column of spongy cellular tissue in the stem of a small tree called Tetrapanax Papyrifera, native to southwest China.</li><li>It has had a variety of uses, some going back many centuries.</li><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul>

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