China.- Sunqua (Studio of, active 1830-1870) Album with 11 finely executed watercolours of elegantly dressed Chinese nobility and courtiers, opaque pigments on pith paper, each edged with light blue silk and neatly presented on album leaf, each pith sheet approx. 245 x 150 mm (9 3/4 x 5 7/8 in), scattered splits, cracks and sheet loss, spotting and browning to some sheets, minor surface dirt, front free endpaper with 'Sunqua' red ink on blue silk label, further inscribed in pen and brown ink with previous owner's name 'Mme Dufay', original chinese silk patterened binding, lacking ties with some associated losses, edges split with board exposed, 4to, [mid-19th century]