An onlooker at the presidential review held November 13, 1918, in celebration of Armistice Day, this lady is seated on a large copper incense burner. She appears to be a wealthy dowager, her tiny bound feet encased in embroidered silk slippers. The woman standing nearby, also with bound feet, is probably her maid, carrying her mistress’s handwarmer.
Photograph courtesy of Catherine Gamble Curran ‘47, the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation for China Studies, New York City, and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.