This Chinese wood and glass mirror box – showing a man and woman making love: you can see her tiny bound feet (c.18th century) Photo: Courtesy Science Museum, London/Science and Society Picture Library

A detail of one of the panels is below – notice the woman’s red shoes and her disproportionately small feet.

 The original panel box can be seen at the Institute of Sexology exhibition in London – on till Sept 2015

See my previous blog posts about the exhibition and other bound feet artefacts you can see there.