Once you see this painting you can't push it out of your memory. The drip of Dragon’s blood melts the earth, next to the identically colored shoe of the Princess. This painting was described by a critic as a mass of soapsuds and whitewash. This was just a promo stuff. He was 67, suffering illness. This was the basis of the swirling black-brown fiery vortex in the painting. Only the chain stitching of the two shoes were slightly different. These two items thus appear similar to underwear: erotically charged, “dirty,” and defiling. “Shoes” are listed in a checklist of commodities, after “summer cotton cloth” and “bamboo and wooden boards.” Although the strictures are excessive, it seems reasonable to expect that wealthy and large households in an earlier Period Would hire sewing women to supply the needs of the family. In the plum in the Golden Vase, leather is used only for edging or tip reinforcements.