19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE SILK KESI PANEL
19TH CENTURY
Finely woven in bright colors with a scene of Xiwangmu and her attendants seated atop a crane as they descend to meet Shoulao and the Eight Daoist Immortals standing on a rocky terrace amidst pine and peach trees, above a rushing river in which Magu navigates her log raft, with further groups of immortals standing along the shore bearing numerous gifts
80 x 38 in. (203.2 x 96.6 cm.), mounted as a hanging scroll

Provenance

Acquired in Asia in the late 1950s.

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Lot Essay

The scene on this kesi panel depicts the birthday celebration of Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West. A closely related silk kesi panel with similar bright red sky in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji - Gongyi Meishu Bian, vol. 7, Beijing, 1987, pl. 180, where it is dated to the Qing Dynasty.

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