Wealth Gallery

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth

Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings, most often near their entrances (helping them attract wealth and prosperity to those places as well as acting as a protection to their environments and the income which comes to them). Pictured here distributing money, a Chinese custom at New Year. Date: circa 1920s

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Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19, shepherd with flock of sheep on the South Downs 20, and explosion at a gunpowder mill in Battle, Sussex 21. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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Trades in Regency England: Spar ornaments, pottery

Trades in Regency England: Spar ornaments, pottery ware and salt refiner. Alabaster stone ornaments made in the Peak District on a mantlepiece 52, shop window with pottery from Etruria, Staffordshire 53, and man removing scum from a vat of boiling salt water in Northwich 54. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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