A Chinese layered reverse glass painting in ink, colour, mother-of-pearl, silk and embroidered materials depicting a lady and child beside an overhanging maple tree watching two dogs playing with a straw hat and abandoned sandal, a third dog to the side, all before a pavilion and a bridge leading to further pavilions in a mountainous river landscape -- 23¼in.x 35½in., lacquered wood frame painted with birds in flight among flowering grasses.