Stylised Doves in Blooming Garden Accessory Pouch

In this colourful painting by Yee Wah Jung, doves flutter their wings surrounded by stylised flowers and trees. This painting by my mother is in the "Tu-Aunqua" style, a descriptive name for the meticulous process of drawing the design on tissue paper, transferring the pattern onto silk and then painting with oils. The stylised flowers and animals and method was something my mother learned from her mother. The term, tu-aunqua, found in an exhibit brochure describing her work, may have been a rough phonetic translation of "labour table painting" from Chinese.