IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 185642 accession number: 4168.4 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 10 October 2011 updated: Thursday 28 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A watercolour drawing from the album 4168. This image depicts a Qing court lady sitting beside an ornate table. The figure wears a court robe featuring multiple richly decorated layers - a dark outer robe with elaborate dragon and cloud motifs, colorful sleeves with floral patterns, and a lower part with wave designs and floral embroidery. She wears an ornate blue headdress decorated with pearls and dangling ornaments, and has a blue cap around her collar. The hexagonal table has bamboo legs and a wooden surface. On the table are a green ceramic vase holding crested cock's comb and a green ceramic pot with narcissus. The painting is executed in the style typical of Chinese export art from around the late 18th or early 19th century, with careful attention to details in the clothing, furniture, and decorative objects. The style combines Chinese painting techniques with elements designed to appeal to Western tastes, particularly in the detailed rendering of the figure's sumptuous costume and the well-appointed interior setting. Previously described as "Manchu official ". title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185642 TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour, bodycolour, and ink with heightening in white, gold and silver on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper drawing CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Yunqua DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 336 dimension: Width units: mm value: 253 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4168_284_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 777 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/mid_4168_284_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 660 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/4168_284_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 777 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/preview_4168_284_29_201106_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/313/large_4168_4__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/313/mid_4168_4__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4168(4)_201106_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/313/preview_4168_4__201106_amt49_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/604/313/4168_4__201106_amt49_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/948/large_4168_4__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 1351 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/948/mid_4168_4__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 660 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/4168(4)_201106_amt49_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/948/preview_4168_4__201106_amt49_dc1.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/622/948/4168_4__201106_amt49_dc1.ptif height: 4928 pixels width: 3735 pixels