Album Leaf from Illustrations of Chinese Costumes

This album leaf is a part of a 48-page album that depicts Chinese subjects participating in various aspects of daily life, including government business, daily life, cultural customs, modes of transportation, and corporal punishment. This leaf depicts and ink and watercolour drawing of a high rank official being carried in a decorated green palanquin by eight men. The official wears a surcoat with a rank badge, a court necklace, and a red hat with tassels. His bearers wear short black jackets over black pants, blue leggings, black shoes, and yellow coned hats with red feathers. In the cabin of the luxurious palanquin we can see a vase with flowers and a small mirror.