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The painting, from Lui Cheng Thak’s Old Shophouses Series and Window Series, was done in the artist’s early career years after graduating from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art. Everything points to auspicious aspects with the paper talismans hanging from the top of the door frame, the Fukui flowers, and the No. 8, which in Chinese means ‘prosperous’, scrawled on top. The artist who specialises in architectural heritage paintings confides that this was the only door work that he had painted, amidst his usual rendition of windows in various forms and sizes.