Page 101 - Bonhams Olivier Collection Early Chinese Art November 2018
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‘In twelve chambers the
ladies, decked for the day,
Peer afar for their lord
from their Fairy-View Lodge;
The golden toad guards the
lock on the door-chain,
And the bronze-dragon water-
clock drips through the morning;
Till one of them, tilting a mirror,
combs her cloud of hair,
And chooses new scent and
a change of silk raiment......’
- Palace Poem by Xue Feng
