19th C. Chinese Pith Painting Portrait of Woman with Opium Pipe leather bootie So that the kids or

So that the kids or grandkids know what an old fashioned plug-into-the wall rotary phone looked like

Photos don't capture how the homespun warmth and presence of this board

a brass lord's prayer tag

industry and justice

also quite a lot about grace

19th C. Chinese Pith Painting Portrait of Woman with Opium Pipe leather bootie So that the kids orThis 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,