Pith paper

Same as Rice paper, under Rice.

See also: Pith

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

See also Ifan Williams, 'Views from the West--Chinese Pith Paper Paintings', Arts of Asia, September/October 2001, pp.

Beauty in pursuit of pleasure: 19th-century Chinese export watercolours on pith depict a variety of idealised, attractive women. Ifan Williams traces the sources for these popular images, which appealed to western audiences as representations of the sophistication and exoticism of Chinese civilisation

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