    
Botanical
Painting
Chinese botanical paintings on Rice Paper "Tetrapanax
papyriferum"
Timeline of Tetrapanax papyriferum:
265-420 A.D.
The earliest mention of the use of pith paper is thought to be during the Tsin
Dynasty (265-420 A.D.). In the official records in the year of Jiann Kang
"Jiann Kang Shyr Luh", it is mentioned that the emperor ordered
servants to arrange flowers made from "Tung-tsaou".
1590
Image of Rice Paper plant is published in 1590 in the Pen ts'ao kang mu
(Chinese Materia Medica) by Shizhen Li.
1634
Pith papermaking discussed in T'ien Kung K'ai Wu, a guide to Chinese
technology in the 17th century.
1690
Rice paper plant first mentioned in Western literature in Georg Eberhard
Rumpf's Herbarium Amboinenes under the name Buglossum litoreum.
1805
The first examples of "rice-paper" were brought to England in 1805
from China by a Dr. Livingstone.
Circa 1825
Pith paper paintings begin to be produced in Southern China, more than likely
for the tourist trade.
1830
General Hardwicke identifies the "rice-paper" plant as Aeschynomene
paludosa in Botanical Miscellany v.1, 1830.
1834
George Bennett, in his Wanderings in New South Wales (1834) publishes
the first picture of the "rice
paper" plant available to the western world. [Image can be seen on the
main exhibit page]
1850
Sir William Jackson Hooker receives the first samples of pith paper, a model
of the knife used in cutting the plant, and a series of paintings detailing
the plant and the production of the rice paper.
1852
Berthold Seeman, during the voyage of the H.M.S. Herald , collected a specimen
of the rice paper plant that he believed belonged to the family Malvaceae.
1852
Hooker receives first living specimens of the plant and comes to the
conclusion that the "rice paper" plant is part of the Araliaceous
family and so re-names it Aralia Papyrifera, Hook.
1855
Hooker receives a flowering specimen from J. W. Bowring esq., Hong Kong, and
is able to prepare a complete description for Curtis's Botanical Magazine
mid to late 1850s
With increased European interest, the market for pith paper and its product
greatly expands.
1859
German botanist Karl Koch, in Wochenschrift fur Gartnerei und Pflanzenkunde
recharacterizes the plant as a Didymopanax, subgenus Tetrapanax.
1903
Over 144,000 lbs of rice paper are exported from Taiwan, and 2,000-3,000
people are employed in the rice paper artificial flower industry in Canton,
China, and Hong Kong alone.
circa 1920
The European demand for rice paper paintings dies out.
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