Row Of Boats – Gambling Parlors?

China

1850-1911

  • Titles Row Of Boats - Gambling Parlors? (Proper)
  • Artist China
  • Medium albumen print
  • Dimensions 5 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (14.9 x 19.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1989.142.13
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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Wearing the unadorned hairstyle of an ascetic and notably without jewelry she has four hands: the upper right holding a rosary, the upper left holding a sickle, the lower right making a boon-granting gesture. The lowered left holding a water pot with a handle. Her lion stands to her right. A doe rests beneath a buck at her left. A radiating mandorla radiates like flower peals behind. Her sari clings to her body. Her eyes are wide open with a slight smile. Damage to the face and left breast as well as the two upper hands.
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Nestled into mountains by the water are a complex of buildings devoted to silk production. Mulberry leaves are being harvested and dried. Cocoons are stored as they age and other activities are portrayed inside and outside the buildings.
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