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Description: | A lady uses a chair for support as she puts small flowers in her hair for decoration. The lady wears a gold tunic over red trousers and a blue short jacket. She is standing but kneels on a green chair with her left knee and holds onto the chair back with her left arm. She has small [bound] feet. Her servant stands to the right, in white trousers and orange and white tunic, holding up a basket of flowers. Behind the woman to the left is a high black plant table, on it sits an angular green vase filled with branches covered in a large white blossom.
On pith paper which is trimmed with blue silk ribbon. Export watercolour for Western market.
Accession number: NCM 1888-78 | Subjects: | costume (women's) figures furniture flowers | Temporal: | 1800-1900 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | made in Guangzhou Province | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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