A LARGE KESI RECTANGULAR PANEL

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A LARGE KESI RECTANGULAR PANEL
19TH CENTURY

Woven and painted with an elborate scene of the Eight Daoist Immortals, Shoulao, and Xiwangmu, within a celestial setting of terraced pavilions, waterfalls and layered rocks from which grow peach and pine amidst vaporous clouds, all picked out in shades of blue, green, rust, cream and brown, some of the details painted, primarily in black and some also woven in gold thread, all against a rust ground
70 x 35½in. (177.8 x 90.3cm.), mounted as a hanging scroll with green brocade mount

Lot Essay

A very similar kesi panel was included in the exhibition, Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Urban Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, June 23, 1995- September 17, 1995, Catalogue no. 338, where the authors describe the subject matter of the weaving as 'a group of immortals offering birthday felicitations to the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu)'