Living scene of a noble family, possibly 4th/5th century ink and colour on paper The painting divided into three grids, in the largest grid painted with two ladies holding rounded fans and wearing long striped robe in front of hangings decorated flowers, and a shorter young female attendant serving wine to a lady by a table displayed with ear-cups and vase, while another shorter young servant cooking on the right corner, all above a female figure grinding grains in the left smaller grid and a male figure with a waggon in the right grid, framed and glazed. 40.5cm (16in) x 47.5cm (18 3/4in)Footnotes或四/五世紀 阿斯塔納風格仕女宴飲圖紙畫 Wine drinking is a common scene in paintings found in the Astana area of the Gaochang Kingdom (mid-5th to the mid-7th century), with both male and female figures. Compare with pieces of two paintings excavated from Khara-khara-khoto, Astana Cemetery, 5th century, illustrated in A.Stern, Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Iran, Oxford, 1928, vol.3, pl. CVII. 紙本，分三格，以墨彩朱彩繪人物起居圖，上部繪二仕女，面貼花黃，身著條紋長袍立於花紋帳幔內，另繪一較矮身侍女手持羽觴杯侍酒，中間置黑色彎腿小桌，上置羽觴杯及酒壺，右側仕女身旁繪矮身廚娘準備烹飪，下方兩格左側繪一女舂米磨面，右側繪一男引牛車。 高昌古國阿斯塔納地區出土的壁畫與紙畫常見聚會中的宴飲場景，如1920年代斯坦因在吐魯番阿斯塔納地區發掘出極為類似的紙畫，見斯坦因，《亞洲腹地》，牛津，1928年，卷3，圖版CVII。