Antique Chinese Woman With Child Watercolour Painting, Framed

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A antique Chinese watercolor , depicting a woman and her child in a beautiful Chinese garden, This painting through the … more A antique Chinese watercolor , depicting a woman and her child in a beautiful Chinese garden, This painting through the woman’s hairstyle and wearing very nice and colorful clothes showing this painting was in the middle of 18th century emperor Qianlong period style China, but she has small bound feet. It is a really professional brush painted antique water color painting .(Bound feet Foot binding (also known as "Lotus feet") is the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth. The practice possibly originated among upper-class court dancers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Imperial China (10th or 11th century), but spread in the Song Dynasty and eventually became common among all but the lowest of classes. Foot binding became popular as a means of displaying status (women from wealthy families who did not need them to work could afford to have their feet bound) and was correspondingly adopted as a symbol of beauty in old Chinese culture. Anyway measurement for this beautiful painting : with frame 24” H x 20”W , without frame: 17”H x 13.5”W. less