MING DYNASTY, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY

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A LARGE PAINTING OF DAOIST STELLAR DIVINITIES
MING DYNASTY, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY
The painting is finely rendered with ink and colour on silk, colourfully depicting a female deity with a halo around her head, wearing elaborately decorated silk robes and carrying a lotus stalk, accompanied by a male deity, with a similar halo, holding a gui sceptre. The two deities are accompanied by a female attendant holding a canopy from which is suspending a banner which is inscribed at the top right-hand corner with the characters, Zimu Xinggong Zuntian. The scene is set amidst multi-coloured cloud scrolls.
66 in. x 35 3/4 in. (167.6 cm. x 90.8 cm.), mounted as a hanging scroll

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2002, lot 329

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Lot Essay

Compare a large hanging scroll depicting the Daoist pantheon in the Musee Guimee Collection, exhibited in Taoism & the Arts of China, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, no. 85. In this painting the deities are also dressed in luxuriously adorned garments in a celestial heaven amidst ruyi clouds, and is dated to circa 1600. Another similar scroll with the same dating was also included in the exhibition, no. 86.

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