Ten paintings of birds on pith paper, China for export, Canton, 19th century Gouache on paper, the paintings depict various colored birds in pairs, singly, or in threes, posed on flower branches, mounds or among flowers. Sight size for four: approx. 31.5 x 19.5 cm and for six: approx. 24.5 x 16 cm Framed under glass, accidents. This soft-textured white paper, falsely called "rice paper", is in fact made from a small shrub, Tetrapanax Papyrifera, found mainly in southern China.