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A Chinese export painting
in gouache on silk, depicting and elegant interior with two ladies seated drinking tea, surrounded by four attendants, the room with a long table to the far wall set with albums and calligraphic materials, suspended lanterns, calligraphic banners and a scroll depicting a mountainous scene, the foreground with jardinieres of flowers and bonsai trees, the shutters opened to reveal a tree-strewn garden -- 15¼in. (38.7cms) x 20in. (50.8cms), framed and glazed
in gouache on silk, depicting and elegant interior with two ladies seated drinking tea, surrounded by four attendants, the room with a long table to the far wall set with albums and calligraphic materials, suspended lanterns, calligraphic banners and a scroll depicting a mountainous scene, the foreground with jardinieres of flowers and bonsai trees, the shutters opened to reveal a tree-strewn garden -- 15¼in. (38.7cms) x 20in. (50.8cms), framed and glazed