It is one of the objects from ‘the scholar’s table’. If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle of the 18th Century – or even the 19th Century – you would have a table, and on it you ...

Chair and detail, unknown maker, 1750 – 75, England. Museum no. W ... and exotic imaginary scenes – also appeared on wallpaper during the 18th century. Chinese wallpaper first arrived for sale in ...