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Property of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund
A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A FEMALE IMMORTAL
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A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A FEMALE IMMORTAL
Possibly depicting Magu, the Goddess of Longevity, the immortal shown seated on a rocky outcrop wearing sash-tied layered robes and a celestial scarf billowing behind the shoulders, her face with delicate features and her hair pulled up into a topknot, holding in her right hand a fly whisk and in her left hand the antlers of a deer with backward-turned head shown grasping in its mouth a branch of lingzhi fungus that trails along its back towards a recumbent doe at his rear, the stone of even white tone
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, carved wood stand
Possibly depicting Magu, the Goddess of Longevity, the immortal shown seated on a rocky outcrop wearing sash-tied layered robes and a celestial scarf billowing behind the shoulders, her face with delicate features and her hair pulled up into a topknot, holding in her right hand a fly whisk and in her left hand the antlers of a deer with backward-turned head shown grasping in its mouth a branch of lingzhi fungus that trails along its back towards a recumbent doe at his rear, the stone of even white tone
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, carved wood stand
Provenance
G.T. Marsh & Co., San Francisco, February 1959.
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