19th C. Chinese Pith Painting Portrait of Woman with Opium Pipe physiology though I might want to

though I might want to keep it out all of the time

I believe original to it and which suits it very well

7 3/4" l x 7/8" t x 1/8" thick and wonderfully worn

7 1/2" l x 4" w x 4" t and heavy

no tears at all

19th C. Chinese Pith Painting Portrait of Woman with Opium Pipe physiology though I might want toThis is a Cantonese gouache painting on pith, mounted to good weight backing paper (blue ribbon runs around the perimeter of the pith paper and is what holds the painting to the larger backing paper), which I believe would originally have been housed in a portfolio containing a set of six or twelve, together portraying a selection of court figures in fine dress, perhaps the emperor and empress, too. I love this woman for the opium pipe in her hands,