Giving the Pearl Tower as Gift from The Pearl Tower

Adapted from the famous Wuxi Opera The Pearl Tower which tells a love story between Fang Qing and Chen Cui’e, this piece displays the most important scene, “giving the pearl tower as a gift”, in the opera with two beautifully-shaped and elegantly-hued characters, in which the female protagonist Chen Cui’e holding a parcel wrapped in a piece of blue cloth with floral patterns while the gentleman holding a red oil-paper umbrella, a typical raingear used in Jiangnan of China.