DETROIT DE MALACCA, AND CHINE, CHARLES MOZIN, 1841 Asian Works of Art > Furniture > Cabinets & Chests a crawling nude boy

a crawling nude boy

and peacock feathers in white

from 'Sketches of Chinese life and Character'

modelled as a recumbent crouched elephant with a monkey rider holding a white fan

Hemline fraying is intentional

DETROIT DE MALACCA, AND CHINE, CHARLES MOZIN, 1841 Asian Works of Art > Furniture > Cabinets & Chests a crawling nude boyA pair of hand coloured lithographs; plate. 64 'Chine' 'Bateau de transport du Tigre' and plate. 80 'Detroit de Malacca' 'Ancre Malaise & Sampann Poucatt au mouillage et la voile', both after drawings by Francois Edmond Paris, From 'Essais sur la Construction Navale des Peuples Extra Europeens ou Collection des Navires et Pirogues,' published by Arthur Bertrand, Paris, 1841, mounted, unframed