A LARGE KESI RECTANGULAR PANEL

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A LARGE KESI RECTANGULAR PANEL
LATE 19TH CENTURY

Woven and painted with an elaborate scene of the Eight Daoist Immortals, as well as Shoulao and Xiwangmu, within a celestial setting of terraced pavilions, streams, and rocky outcrops from which grow pine, pawlonia and peach amidst layered, vaporous clouds, all picked out in shades of blue, green, red, cream and brown, the details and outlines painted primilary in black, all against a rust ground
66½ x 33¾in. (169.5 x 85.7cm.), framed

Lot Essay

Compare a similar panel included in the exhibition, Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Urban Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Musuem of Art, June 23-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)'