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Chinese beauty seated next to a table with smoking pipe and covered tea cup
(美人)
(19th century)

Medium
pigments on glass
Measurements
(49.2 × 35.0 cm) (image) 60.2 × 45.3 × 4.0 cm (frame)
Place/s of Execution
Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong province, China
Accession Number
1772-D4
Department
Asian Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by C. A. Layfield Esq., 1958
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
A Chinese beauty is wearing a Chinese costume with a blue top with wide sleeves and voluminous white trousers. The blue top has wide borders decorated with chrysanthemums. Wearing ornate hair ornaments and earrings and holding a fan in her left hand, she is sitting in a chair beside a table with a smoking pipe and a covered tea bowl. Parts of her bound feet are covered by her trousers.