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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 126

An illustration from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary, 1812, leaf 126
made of sewed cloth, linedwith cotton, and a gold thread at thetop. If these stockings are not elegantlyshaped, they, at any rate, possess theadvantage of being very warm. In Europe, the trades of hatter andhosier are generally one; but, in China,they are of quite an opposite descrip-tion. The… … ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 89 of a bright red. In court or familymourning dresses, it is customary to takeoif the red tuft from the hat, for twenty-seven days. The other figure in the same Plate isthat of a dealer in vipers. He carriesover his shoulders a piece of bamboo, towhich is suspended, on one…

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