Chinese woman selling chow-chow pickles, 18th century

Chinese woman selling chow-chow, 18th century. She sits smoking a tobacco pipe at a stall under an umbrella selling preserves and pickles from a vase. Femme vendant le tsieou (chow-chow). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Chine: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois, - China: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Chinese, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1822. Jean-Baptiste Eyries - (1767-1846) was a - French - geographer, author and translator

 china 1822 18th Century French -  geographer Itinerant J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries La Chine Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Chinese Moeurs Et Usages Des Chinois Pickles Preserves Relish Spoon Stall Tobacco Pipe Translator Vendor William Alexander

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