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Chinese beauty seated next to a table with smoking pipe and vase of flowers
(美人)
(19th century)

Medium
pigments on glass
Measurements
(50.0 × 34.2 cm) (image) 61.0 × 45.4 × 3.5 cm (frame)
Place/s of Execution
Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong province, China
Accession Number
1773-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, she is holding a book in her right hand. She is sitting in a chair beside a red covered table with a smoking pipe and a red vase with flowers. Her right bound foot is covered by the trouser and her left bound foot covered by a stroke of white colour.