19th century The mandarin attired in a long robe of sky-blue colour, tied at the waist with a thin emerald-green sash falling short of the feet to reveal the black satin boots, the shoulders covered with a large pink scarf and a pointed collar, the right hand holding folded fan; the female figure wearing a long winter jacket of cerulean colour, finely decorated with roundels of peonies and butterflies, above a pink pleated skirt, her hair arranged in a tall chignon secured with a jade hairpin, holding an opium pipe in her right hand and a ruyi purse in her left, watercolour on paper, framed. Each painting 211cm (83in) high x 94cm (37in) wide. (2).