Chinese lady of rank, Peking, 18th century

Chinese lady of rank, Peking, 18th century. She wears an rich headdress and embroidered silk gown, holds a tobacco pipe and pouch. She has a colourful songbird on her finger. The buildings are near the West Gate of Beijing. Chinois de qualite. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Chine: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois, - China: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Chinese, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1822. Jean-Baptiste Eyries - (1767-1846) was a - French - geographer, author and translator

 china 1822 18th Century French -  geographer J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries La Chine Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Chinese Moeurs Et Usages Des Chinois Peking Pouch Tobacco Pipe Translator William Alexander

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