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ANTIQUE CHINESE PAINTINGS ON GLASS
The following twenty numbers of the catalogue are Chinese paintings on
glass, of the time of Ch'ien-lung, in teakwood frames of the period. The
painting is done on the under side of the glass. The measurements given arc
inclusive of the frames.
197-LADY SEWING
This painting shows European influence, in its use of per-
spective and the arrangement of a rather elaborate land-
sea pe background. A young woman in pale blue and red
is sitting on a garden bench, engaged at needlework; at her
back is the gray wall of a house with an oval window dis-
closing pink drapery, and a pine tree growing at the corner
of the building. Her position is on a terrace, above a body
of placid water beyond which in the background are red
banks and green hillsides, with humble gray buildings.
Height, 1614 inches; width, 1214 inches.

198-l\fuSIC LOVERS
On a balcony overlooking a garden two young lovers who
also love music are seated in close proximity, the enamored
with a flute, the inamorata with the sho-flute, both giving
sensitive attention to music's requirements while he looks
raptly at the skies and she bends adoring eyes on him. On
the ground below an attendant approaches to serve tea.
The costumes are blue, white, black, vermilion and gold, and
the color scheme with variations is maintained in grounds
and background, and in the balcony and the house to which
it pertains, at a corner of which bamboo trees are growing.
Aloft the fabulous pheenix is seen, swooping toward an orna-
mental banana tree growing beyond blue rockery.
Height, 15% inches; width, 12 inches.